Dissociating uncertainty responses and reinforcement signals in the comparative study of uncertainty monitoring.

@article{citeulike:1981581, abstract = {Although researchers are exploring animals' capacity for monitoring their states of uncertainty, the use of some paradigms allows the criticism that animals map avoidance responses to error-causing stimuli not because of uncertainty monitored but because of feedback signals and stimulus aversion. The authors addressed this criticism with an uncertainty-monitoring task in which participants completed blocks of trials with feedback deferred so that they could not associate reinforcement signals to particular stimuli or stimulus-response pairs. Humans and 1 of 2 monkeys were able to make cognitive, decisional uncertainty responses that were independent of feedback or reinforcement history within a task. This finding unifies the comparative literature on uncertainty monitoring. The dissociation of performance from reinforcement has theoretical implications, and the deferred-feedback technique has many applications.}, address = {Department of Psychology and Center for Cognitive Science, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA. psysmith@buffalo.edu}, author = {Smith, J. D. and Beran, M. J. and Redford, J. S. and Washburn, D. A. }, citeulike-article-id = {1981581}, doi = {10.1037/0096-3445.135.2.282}, issn = {0096-3445}, journal = {J Exp Psychol Gen}, keywords = {human, macaques, nonhuman, reinforcement, uncertainty}, month = {May}, number = {2}, pages = {282--297}, posted-at = {2008-01-02 16:30:13}, priority = {3}, title = {Dissociating uncertainty responses and reinforcement signals in the comparative study of uncertainty monitoring.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0096-3445.135.2.282}, volume = {135}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1981581 TI - Dissociating uncertainty responses and reinforcement signals in the comparative study of uncertainty monitoring. JF - J Exp Psychol Gen VL - 135 IS - 2 SP - 282 EP - 297 AD - Department of Psychology and Center for Cognitive Science, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA. psysmith@buffalo.edu SN - 0096-3445 N2 - Although researchers are exploring animals' capacity for monitoring their states of uncertainty, the use of some paradigms allows the criticism that animals map avoidance responses to error-causing stimuli not because of uncertainty monitored but because of feedback signals and stimulus aversion. The authors addressed this criticism with an uncertainty-monitoring task in which participants completed blocks of trials with feedback deferred so that they could not associate reinforcement signals to particular stimuli or stimulus-response pairs. Humans and 1 of 2 monkeys were able to make cognitive, decisional uncertainty responses that were independent of feedback or reinforcement history within a task. This finding unifies the comparative literature on uncertainty monitoring. The dissociation of performance from reinforcement has theoretical implications, and the deferred-feedback technique has many applications. KW - human KW - macaques KW - nonhuman KW - reinforcement KW - uncertainty AU - Smith, JD AU - Beran, MJ AU - Redford, JS AU - Washburn, DA PY - 2006/05// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0096-3445.135.2.282 ER -