Explicit knowledge of task structure is a primary determinant of human model-based action.

ABSTRACT: Explicit information obtained through instruction profoundly shapes human choice behaviour. However, this has been studied in computationally simple tasks, and it is unknown how model-based and model-free systems, respectively generating goal-directed and habitual actions, are affected by the absence or presence of instructions. We assessed behaviour in a variant of a computationally more complex decision-making task, before and after providing information about task structure, both in healthy volunteers and in individuals suffering from obsessive-compulsive or other disorders. Initial behaviour was model-free, with rewards directly reinforcing preceding actions. Model-based control, employing predictions of states resulting from each action, emerged with experience in a minority of partic

SUBMITTER: Castro-Rodrigues P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7613376 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature