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Non-optimal perceptual decision in human navigation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2019

Mintao Zhao  and
William H. Warren
Mintao Zhao
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom. Mintao.Zhao@uea.ac.ukhttps://www.uea.ac.uk/psychology/people/profile/mintao-zhao
William H. Warren
Affiliation:
Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02910. Bill_Warren@brown.eduhttp://www.cog.brown.edu/Research/ven_lab/
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Abstract

We highlight that optimal cue combination does not represent a general principle of cue interaction during navigation, extending Rahnev & Denison's (R&D) summary of nonoptimal perceptual decisions to the navigation domain. However, we argue that the term “suboptimality” does not capture the way visual and nonvisual cues interact in navigational decisions.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 41 , 2018 , e250
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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