Visibility is not equivalent to confidence in a low contrast orientation discrimination task
Frontiers in Psychology July 4, 2016 Manuel eRausch, Michael eZehetleitner
In several visual tasks, participants report that they feel confident about discrimination responses at a level of stimulation at which they would report not seeing the stimulus. How general and reliable is this effect? We compared subjective reports of discrimination confidence and subjective reports of visibility in an orientation discrimination task with varying stimulus contrast....