Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) monitor evolving decisions to control adaptive information seeking.

ABSTRACT: Adaptive decision making in humans depends on feedback between monitoring, which assesses mental states, and control, by which cognitive processes are modified. We investigated the extent to which monitoring and control interact iteratively in monkeys. Monkeys classified images as birds, fish, flowers, or people. At the beginning of each trial, to-be-classified images were not visible. Monkeys touched the image area to incrementally brighten the image, referred to as the brighten response. The amount by which brightness increased with each brighten response was unpredictable, and the monkeys could choose to classify the images at any time during a trial. We hypothesized that if monkeys monitored the status of their classification decision then they would seek information depending on the a

SUBMITTER: Brady RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8238786 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature