ArticleeLife2016
The modulation of savouring by prediction error and its effects on choice.
Article in eLife, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.
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49 citing papers in PubMed.
- Representations of the intrinsic value of information in mouse orbitofrontal cortex.Nature neuroscience · 2026Article
- Why do we seek information about the future? On the origins of subjective value without instrumental value.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Exerting effort for non-instrumental information under risk.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- A bio-inspired minimal model for non-stationary K-armed bandits.Biological cybernetics · 2026Article
- Addressing Altered Anticipation as a Transdiagnostic Target Through Computational Psychiatry.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2025Review
- Do goldfish like to be informed?Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- To know or not to know? Curiosity and the value of prospective information in animals.Learning & behavior · 2025Review
- Computational and Neural Evidence for Altered Fast and Slow Learning from Losses in Problem Gambling.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Striatal-hippocampal functional connectivity contributes to real-life positive anticipatory experiences and subjective well-being.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- Temporal context effects on suboptimal choice.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Article
- Individual differences in information demand have a low dimensional structure predicted by some curiosity traits.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Rats' performance in a suboptimal choice procedure implemented in a natural-foraging analogue.Animal cognition · 2024Article
- Autistic traits foster effective curiosity-driven exploration.PLoS computational biology · 2024Article
- Explaining dopamine through prediction errors and beyond.Nature neuroscience · 2024Review
- The causal structure and computational value of narratives.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2024Review
- The effect of noninstrumental information on reward learning.Memory & cognition · 2024Article
- A special role for anterior cingulate cortex, but not orbitofrontal cortex or basolateral amygdala, in choices involving information.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- A neural mechanism for conserved value computations integrating information and rewards.Nature neuroscience · 2024Article
- Curiosity evolves as information unfolds.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- The availability of non-instrumental information increases risky decision-making.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Article
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Abstract
When people anticipate uncertain future outcomes, they often prefer to know their fate in advance. Inspired by an idea in behavioral economics that the anticipation of rewards is itself attractive, we hypothesized that this preference of advance information arises because reward prediction errors carried by such information can boost the level of anticipation. We designed new empirical behavioral studies to test this proposal, and confirmed that subjects preferred advance reward information more strongly when they had to wait for rewards for a longer time. We formulated our proposal in a reinforcement-learning model, and we showed that our model could account for a wide range of existing neuronal and behavioral data, without appealing to ambiguous notions such as an explicit value for information. We suggest that such boosted anticipation significantly drives risk-seeking behaviors, most pertinently in gambling.
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