Advances in modeling learning and decision-making in neuroscience

AGE Collins, A Shenhav - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2022 - nature.com
An organism's survival depends on its ability to learn about its environment and to make
adaptive decisions in the service of achieving the best possible outcomes in that …

[HTML][HTML] The visual environment and attention in decision making.

JL Orquin, ES Lahm, H Stojić - Psychological Bulletin, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Visual attention is a fundamental aspect of most everyday decisions, and governments and
companies spend vast resources competing for the attention of decision makers. In natural …

Value-based attention but not divisive normalization influences decisions with multiple alternatives

S Gluth, N Kern, M Kortmann, CL Vitali - Nature human behaviour, 2020 - nature.com
Violations of economic rationality principles in choices between three or more options are
critical for understanding the neural and cognitive mechanisms of decision-making. A recent …

Computational rationality as a theory of interaction

A Oulasvirta, JPP Jokinen, A Howes - … of the 2022 CHI Conference on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
How do people interact with computers? This fundamental question was asked by Card,
Moran, and Newell in 1983 with a proposition to frame it as a question about human …

Visual attention modulates the integration of goal-relevant evidence and not value

P Sepulveda, M Usher, N Davies, AA Benson… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
When choosing between options, such as food items presented in plain view, people tend to
choose the option they spend longer looking at. The prevailing interpretation is that visual …

Optimal policy for attention-modulated decisions explains human fixation behavior

AI Jang, R Sharma, J Drugowitsch - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Traditional accumulation-to-bound decision-making models assume that all choice options
are processed with equal attention. In real life decisions, however, humans alternate their …

Towards machines that understand people

A Howes, JPP Jokinen, A Oulasvirta - AI Magazine, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The ability to estimate the state of a human partner is an insufficient basis on which to build
cooperative agents. Also needed is an ability to predict how people adapt their behavior in …

What comes to mind?

A Bear, S Bensinger, J Jara-Ettinger, J Knobe… - Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
When solving problems, like making predictions or choices, people often “sample”
possibilities into mind. Here, we consider whether there is structure to the kinds of thoughts …

Uncovering the computational mechanisms underlying many-alternative choice

AW Thomas, F Molter, I Krajbich - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
How do we choose when confronted with many alternatives? There is surprisingly little
decision modelling work with large choice sets, despite their prevalence in everyday life …

Value certainty in drift-diffusion models of preferential choice.

DG Lee, M Usher - Psychological Review, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
The drift-diffusion model (DDM) is widely used and broadly accepted for its ability to account
for binary choices (in both the perceptual and preferential domains) and response times …