Bayesian deterministic decision making: A normative account of the operant matching law and heavy-tailed reward history dependency of choices

The decision making behaviors of humans and animals adapt and then satisfy an ``operant matching law'' in certain type of tasks. This was first pointed out by Herrnstein in his foraging experiments on pigeons. The matching law has been one landmark for elucidating the underlying processes...

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Main Authors: Hiroshi eSaito, Kentaro eKatahira, Kazuo eOkanoya, Masato eOkada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncom.2014.00018/full