Tag: Brain and Thoughts

It would be noticed by most people that we usually tend to make decisions that are more based on previous experiences rather than going through an analysis of the situation that we are facing. One may think that this is not the ideal case or we are trapped in the past when it comes to […]

One may usually think that why we are responding slowly when there is some decision conflict. One may think that it is a mechanism for getting more evidence since we have a conflicting decision and this suggestion is completely logical. But, what could be the possible mechanism behind that? Anything that is happening in our […]

  We may know from our daily experiences that our decisions may be affected by beliefs or motivations. But, the question that we are facing here is: “do we have conclusive evidence to put forward this idea?”. Almost all decision-making models in the past neglected the effect of the most desirable outcome in the decision-making […]

When we are considering the learning model, reinforcement learning is an important theme to be considered. The maze experiment with rodent had already shown us the existence of such a system in animals. But, the latest researches, such as DQNs, had pushed it further in AI also. To build a smart in silico model, we […]

In one of the previous post(https://leakyintegral.blogspot.com/2021/03/decision-making-evidence-everybody.html), we had discussed the drift-diffusion model the experimental evidence found for validating it. We can also discuss some of the insights that I got from the paper “The time course of perceptual choice: The leaky, competing accumulator model,” Usher et al(https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295x.108.3.550). This paper and the result presented in it seems to […]

Everybody makes a decision when subjected to certain issues in everyday life. Each day we are making a whole lot of decisions with the expectation of getting a better outcome. You may have heard about decision making in its broad sense, about how important it and all. But, let’s dig deeper to get something new. […]

Did you ever think about why our brain is different from a simple computer? Or how our ability differs from that of a computer? Well if you had seen science fiction such as Matrix, these kinds of thoughts won’t allow you to sleep. But, a simple answer to this is that computers are good at […]