Neural signatures underlying deliberation in human foraging decisions.

ABSTRACT: Humans have a remarkable capacity to mentally project themselves far ahead in time. This ability, which entails the mental simulation of events, is thought to be fundamental to deliberative decision making, as it allows us to search through and evaluate possible choices. Many decisions that humans make are foraging decisions, in which one must decide whether an available offer is worth taking, when compared to unknown future possibilities (i.e., the background). Using a translational decision-making paradigm designed to reveal decision preferences in rats, we found that humans engaged in deliberation when making foraging decisions. A key feature of this task is that preferences (and thus, value) are revealed as a function of serial choices. Like rats, humans also took longer to respond whe

SUBMITTER: Abram SV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6864259 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature