Benedetto De Martino

This study shows that confidence is shaped by decision goals, not just evidence, and introduces a model to explain this goal-dependent confidence formation.

The paper investigates self-attribution bias in error assignment using a visuomotor task, finding that participants credit successes to skill and blame failures on luck, influenced by distorted self-perception and positivity bias.

The paper shows humans actively seek confirming evidence for their choices, leading to biased decision-making when revising earlier decisions.

This study shows that valuation of sensory features drives abstraction during learning, with value signals in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex guiding behavior and decision-making.

This paper shows that visual attention modulates goal-relevant evidence rather than increasing value in decision-making tasks.

The paper shows that confidence in value representations influences exploration vs. exploitation in decision-making, with lower confidence leading to more exploration.