Information-Theoretic Neural Decoding Reproduces Several Laws of Human Behavior
S. Thomas Christie,
Hayden R. Johnson,
Paul R. Schrater
Abstract:Human response times conform to several regularities including the Hick-Hyman law, the power law of practice, speed-accuracy trade-offs, and the Stroop effect. Each of these has been thoroughly modeled in isolation, but no account describes these phenomena as predictions of a unified framework. We provide such a framework and show that the phenomena arise as decoding times in a simple neural rate code with an entropy stopping threshold. Whereas traditional information-theoretic encoding systems exploit task st… Show more
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