Using psychophysics to ask if the brain samples or maximizes
Using psychophysics to ask if the brain samples or maximizes is a scholarly work by Konrad Körding and Daniel E. Acuna, published in 2015 in ''Journal of Vision''. The main subjects of the publication include a priori and a posteriori, cognitive psychology, multisensory integration, artificial intelligence, psychology, executive functions, perception, task, just-noticeable difference, psychophysics, ask price, Two-alternative forced choice, psychometric function, sensory nervous system, and visual perception. The authors derive the behavioral predictions for two popular mechanisms, sampling and maximum a posteriori, and examine how they affect the outcome of the 2AFC task.