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SUBMITTER: Blanchard TC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5825268 | biostudies-other | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Blanchard Tommy C TC Gershman Samuel J SJ
Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience 20180201 1
Balancing exploration and exploitation is a fundamental problem in reinforcement learning. Previous neuroimaging studies of the exploration-exploitation dilemma could not completely disentangle these two processes, making it difficult to unambiguously identify their neural signatures. We overcome this problem using a task in which subjects can either observe (pure exploration) or bet (pure exploitation). Insula and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex showed significantly greater activity on observe ...[more]