Visuospatial information foraging describes search behavior in learning latent environmental features.

ABSTRACT: In the real world, making sequences of decisions to achieve goals often depends upon the ability to learn aspects of the environment that are not directly perceptible. Learning these so-called latent features requires seeking information about them. Prior efforts to study latent feature learning often used single decisions, used few features, and failed to distinguish between reward-seeking and information-seeking. To overcome this, we designed a task in which humans and monkeys made a series of choices to search for shapes hidden on a grid. On our task, the effects of reward and information outcomes from uncovering parts of shapes could be disentangled. Members of both species adeptly learned the shapes and preferred to select tiles expected to be informative earlier in trials than previo

SUBMITTER: Barack DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9860038 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature