Humans decompose tasks by trading off utility and computational cost.

Human behavior emerges from planning over elaborate decompositions of tasks into goals, subgoals, and low-level actions. How are these decompositions created and used? Here, we propose and evaluate a normative framework for task decomposition based on the simple idea that people decompose tasks to r...

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Main Authors: Carlos G Correa, Mark K Ho, Frederick Callaway, Nathaniel D Daw, Thomas L Griffiths
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-06-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011087