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SUBMITTER: Dundon NM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7651516 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dundon Neil M NM Garrett Neil N Babenko Viktoriya V Cieslak Matt M Daw Nathaniel D ND Grafton Scott T ST
Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience 20200801 4
Appraising sequential offers relative to an unknown future opportunity and a time cost requires an optimization policy that draws on a learned estimate of an environment's richness. Converging evidence points to a learning asymmetry, whereby estimates of this richness update with a bias toward integrating positive information. We replicate this bias in a sequential foraging (prey selection) task and probe associated activation within the sympathetic branch of the autonomic system, using trial-by ...[more]