CONTEXT Many clinicians have called for an increased emphasis on the patient's role in clinical decision making. However, little is known about the extent to which physicians foster patient involvement in decision making, particularly in routine office practice. OBJECTIVE To characterize the nature and completeness of informed decision making in routine office visits of both primary care phys...

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In simple perceptual decisions the brain has to identify a stimulus based on noisy sensory samples from the stimulus. Basic statistical considerations state that the reliability of the stimulus information, i.e., the amount of noise in the samples, should be taken into account when the decision is made. However, for perceptual decision making experiments it has been questioned whether the brain...

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1 Miranda Scolari and John T. Serences 2 Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, USA 3 4 Running title: Making informed perceptual decisions 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Correspondence: 24 University of California, San Diego 25 9500 Gilman Drive #0109 26 La Jolla, CA, 92093-0109 27 Email: mscolari@ucsd.edu 28 Articles in PresS. J Neurophysiol (July ...