Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160102360

Funded Activity Summary

Learning from our mistakes: How and when complex decisions fail. The project aims to develop a novel mathematical framework, augmented by simulations and a set of experiments, to study when and how people commit errors. The modern environment bombards us with signals, such as radio and television advertisements as we sit at home or warning lights and car honks as we cross the road. Despite years of psychological research, it is not entirely clear how efficiently people cope with increasing amounts of information nor is it clear whether they process multiple signals simultaneously (in parallel) or one after the other (serial). The project offers new measures, based on the rate and pattern of error responses, to supplement the commonly used response times. The combination of a theoretical framework, based on mathematical and computational work, with empirical data to test the models, may deliver a better understanding of human performance and its limitations.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-03-2016

End Date: 01-11-2021

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $224,565.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance | Psychology | Psychological Methodology, Design and Analysis | Computer Perception, Memory and Attention

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences |

Other Keywords

Computer Perception, Memory and Attention | Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences | Psychological Methodology, Design and Analysis | Psychology | Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance

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