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ArticleRoyal Society open science2024

Getting stuck in a rut as an emergent feature of a dynamic decision-making system.

Matthew Warburton, Jack Brookes, Mohamed Hasan, Matteo Leonetti, Mehmet Dogar, He Wang, Anthony G Cohn, Faisal Mushtaq, Mark Mon-Williams

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Matthew WarburtonSchool of Psychology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5309-4424
Jack BrookesSchool of Psychology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4600-7561
Mohamed HasanSchool of Computing, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Matteo LeonettiSchool of Computing, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Mehmet DogarSchool of Computing, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
He WangSchool of Computing, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Anthony G CohnSchool of Computing, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Faisal MushtaqSchool of Psychology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Mark Mon-WilliamsSchool of Psychology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
University of Leeds · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human sensorimotor decision making has a tendency to get 'stuck in a rut', being biased towards selecting a previously implemented action structure (hysteresis). Existing explanations propose this is the consequence of an agent efficiently modifying an existing plan, rather than creating a new plan from scratch. Instead, we propose that hysteresis is an emergent property of a system learning from the consequences of its actions. To examine this, 152 participants moved a cursor to a target on a tablet device while avoiding an obstacle. Hysteresis was observed when the obstacle moved sequentially across the screen between trials, whereby the participant continued moving around the same side of the obstacle despite it now requiring a larger movement than the alternative. Two further experiments (

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choice biasdecision-makinghysteresis

Identifiers

PMID38577210
PMCPMC10987986
OpenAlexW4393854481

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Registered trials

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