People display consistent recency and primacy effects in behavior and neural activity across perceptual and value-based judgments.
Retrospective judgments require decision-makers to gather information over time and integrate that information into a summary statistic like the average. Many retrospective judgments require putting equal weight on early and late information, in contrast to prospective judgments that involve predict...
| Published in: | Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience Vol. 25; no. 4; pp. 923 - 941 |
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Springer Nature
Aug2025
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