The Fate of Uncertainty in the Transformation from Absolute to Relative Magnitude

Adapted from

The experiment was adapted from Sohn & Lee (2013), J Neurophysiol 109(2):344–362 and Lee, Lim & Lee (2025), iScience 28(7):112844 — the latter is reference 3 below.

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