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Understanding active sampling strategies: Empirical approaches and implications for attention and decision research.
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- Task-adaptive changes to the target template in response to distractor context: Separability versus similarity.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2024Article
- Prospective Distractor Information Reduces Reward-Related Attentional Capture.Journal of cognition · 2024Article
- Humans trade off search costs and accuracy in a combined visual search and perceptual task.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
- Attentional priority is determined by predicted feature distributions.Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2022Article
- Distractibility and impulsivity neural states are distinct from selective attention and modulate the implementation of spatial attention.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Bidirectional influences of information sampling and concept learning.Psychological review · 2022Article
- Filling the gaps: Cognitive control as a critical lens for understanding mechanisms of value-based decision-making.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2022Review
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- A physicochemical model of odor sampling.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
- The ubiquity of selective attention in the processing of feedback during category learning.PloS one · 2021Article
- The ventral striatum dissociates information expectation, reward anticipation, and reward receipt.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- The lateral prefrontal cortex of primates encodes stimulus colors and their behavioral relevance during a match-to-sample task.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- A neural network for information seeking.Nature communications · 2019Article
- Motor cost affects the decision of when to shift gaze for guiding movement.Journal of neurophysiology · 2019Article
- Cognition in Sensorimotor Control: Interfacing With the Posterior Parietal Cortex.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Article
- Towards a neuroscience of active sampling and curiosity.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2018Review
- Control of gaze in natural environments: effects of rewards and costs, uncertainty and memory in target selection.Interface focus · 2018Review
- Gaze and the Control of Foot Placement When Walking in Natural Terrain.Current biology : CB · 2018Article
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Abstract
In natural behavior we actively gather information using attention and active sensing behaviors (such as shifts of gaze) to sample relevant cues. However, while attention and decision making are naturally coordinated, in the laboratory they have been dissociated. Attention is studied independently of the actions it serves. Conversely, decision theories make the simplifying assumption that the relevant information is given, and do not attempt to describe how the decision maker may learn and implement active sampling policies. In this paper I review recent studies that address questions of attentional learning, cue validity and information seeking in humans and non-human primates. These studies suggest that learning a sampling policy involves large scale interactions between networks of attention and valuation, which implement these policies based on reward maximization, uncertainty reduction and the intrinsic utility of cognitive states. I discuss the importance of using such paradigms for formalizing the role of attention, as well as devising more realistic theories of decision making that capture a broader range of empirical observations.
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