Distinct motivations to seek out information in healthy individuals and problem gamblers.

ABSTRACT: As massive amounts of information are becoming available to people, understanding the mechanisms underlying information-seeking is more pertinent today than ever. In this study, we investigate the underlying motivations to seek out information in healthy and addicted individuals. We developed a novel decision-making task and a novel computational model which allows dissociating the relative contribution of two motivating factors to seek out information: a desire for novelty and a general desire for knowledge. To investigate whether/how the motivations to seek out information vary between healthy and addicted individuals, in addition to healthy controls we included a sample of individuals with gambling disorder-a form of addiction without the confound of substance consumption and characteri

SUBMITTER: Dezza IC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8313706 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature