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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Decision Neuroscience
  • Computational Modeling

Background:

  • Complex decisions often involve ambivalence, where options have equally weighted merits and demerits, making comparison difficult.
  • Understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying such ambivalent decision-making is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate information search dynamics during ambivalent decision-making.
  • To model attentional dynamics using eye-tracking data and computational approaches.

Main Methods:

  • An experimental paradigm presented participants with an ambivalent question.
  • Eye-tracking monitored attentional dynamics across different Areas of Interest (AOIs) corresponding to decision options.
  • Two dynamical models incorporating drift and intrinsic oscillation mechanisms were developed and compared.

Main Results:

  • A simpler dynamical model, featuring drifts from uncertainty to certainty states, received higher support.
  • Model parameters showed a weak relationship with the eventual decision.
  • Evidence supports the gaze cascade effect in relation to decision processes.

Conclusions:

  • Intrinsic oscillations can interfere with decision stabilization during ambivalent choices.
  • Eye-tracking dynamics provide valuable insights into the structure of decision-making processes.
  • The findings contribute to understanding how attention shifts influence complex choices.