Response Times Are Affected by Mispredictions in a Stochastic Game

Overview

Journal Sci Rep

Specialty Science

Date 2024 Apr 10

PMID 38600186

Authors

Paulo Roberto Cabral-Passos

Antonio Galves

Jesus Enrique Garcia

Claudia D Vargas

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Abstract

Acting as a goalkeeper in a video-game, a participant is asked to predict the successive choices of the penalty taker. The sequence of choices of the penalty taker is generated by a stochastic chain with memory of variable length. It has been conjectured that the probability distribution of the response times is a function of the specific sequence of past choices governing the algorithm used by the penalty taker to make his choice at each step. We found empirical evidence that besides this dependence, the distribution of the response times depends also on the success or failure of the previous prediction made by the participant. Moreover, we found statistical evidence that this dependence propagates up to two steps forward after the prediction failure.

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