Topic: stimulus-specific drift dynamics

Committing to a decision tends to bias future behaviors, a phenomenon dubbed “confirmation bias”. Daily life requires us to make decisions on remembered past experiences; still, the understanding of confirmation bias in working memory remains sparse. Here, we show that the stimulus-specific drift dynamics should be incorporated into any viable account of confirmation bias in working memory. We crafted a paradigm where participants view a grating briefly, make a binary decision on it, and estimate its orientation, with varying delays between those epochs. We developed a dynamical model wherein