Presentation 2008-05-23
The role of metacognition in decision-making
Fumihiko Taya, Ken Mogi,
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Abstract(in English) When we encounter uncertainties, we make decisions under time pressure without necessarily knowing the optimum answer, picking up relevant information from the results for further judgments. To study the dynamics of human decision-making process in uncertain situations, we observed human behaviors while the subjects were playing betting games without any prior information about the scoring rules. We found that the subjects responded faster as the game progressed, even when the scores were determined randomly independent of the choices. This result indicates that humans not only learn associations between given choices and scores but also dynamically alter strategies of decisions in accordance with facing situations, suggesting a role for metacognition in the human decision-making process.
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Keyword(in English) decision-making / uncertainties / randomness / meta-cognition
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Conference Date 2008/5/16(1days)
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Title (in English) The role of metacognition in decision-making
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Keyword(1) decision-making
Keyword(2) uncertainties
Keyword(3) randomness
Keyword(4) meta-cognition
1st Author's Name Fumihiko Taya
1st Author's Affiliation Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.()
2nd Author's Name Ken Mogi
2nd Author's Affiliation Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.:Department of Computational Intelligence and System Science, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering
Date 2008-05-23
Paper # NC2008-8
Volume (vol) vol.108
Number (no) 54
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 6
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