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Two auditory amplitude discrimination experiments were conducted using thesame-different experimental design. Observer bias was manipulated, in the first experiment, by varying payoff matrices and, in the second, by varying prior probabilities of signal presentation. Five levels of bias manipulation and four levels of difficulty were employed in each experiment. Each observer received all combinations of bias manipulation and difficulty, but with only one of these combinations within each block of trials. Nine indices of bias were assessed by simultaneously fitting isosensitivity and isobias functions to the data and by fitting isobias functions only. Although none of the indices tested provided an exceptionally good fit to the data, two indices stood out from the rest. These werec *sd andc i, indices with isobias contours similar in shape to those for thec index derived from theyes-no task.
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Hautus, M.J., Collins, S. An assessment of response bias for thesame-different task: Implications for the single-interval task. Perception & Psychophysics 65, 844–860 (2003). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03194819
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