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SUBMITTER: Huys QJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4364207 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Huys Quentin J M QJ Lally Níall N Faulkner Paul P Eshel Neir N Seifritz Erich E Gershman Samuel J SJ Dayan Peter P Roiser Jonathan P JP
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20150209 10
Humans routinely formulate plans in domains so complex that even the most powerful computers are taxed. To do so, they seem to avail themselves of many strategies and heuristics that efficiently simplify, approximate, and hierarchically decompose hard tasks into simpler subtasks. Theoretical and cognitive research has revealed several such strategies; however, little is known about their establishment, interaction, and efficiency. Here, we use model-based behavioral analysis to provide a detaile ...[more]