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SUBMITTER: Badre D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3285405 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Badre David D Doll Bradley B BB Long Nicole M NM Frank Michael J MJ
Neuron 20120201 3
How do individuals decide to act based on a rewarding status quo versus an unexplored choice that might yield a better outcome? Recent evidence suggests that individuals may strategically explore as a function of the relative uncertainty about the expected value of options. However, the neural mechanisms supporting uncertainty-driven exploration remain underspecified. The present fMRI study scanned a reinforcement learning task in which participants stop a rotating clock hand in order to win poi ...[more]