Reasoning, learning, and creativity: frontal lobe function and human decision-making.

ABSTRACT: The frontal lobes subserve decision-making and executive control--that is, the selection and coordination of goal-directed behaviors. Current models of frontal executive function, however, do not explain human decision-making in everyday environments featuring uncertain, changing, and especially open-ended situations. Here, we propose a computational model of human executive function that clarifies this issue. Using behavioral experiments, we show that unlike others, the proposed model predicts human decisions and their variations across individuals in naturalistic situations. The model reveals that for driving action, the human frontal function monitors up to three/four concurrent behavioral strategies and infers online their ability to predict action outcomes: whenever one appears more r

SUBMITTER: Collins A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3313946 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature