Neural responses in macaque prefrontal cortex are linked to strategic exploration.

ABSTRACT: Humans have been shown to strategically explore. They can identify situations in which gathering information about distant and uncertain options is beneficial for the future. Because primates rely on scarce resources when they forage, they are also thought to strategically explore, but whether they use the same strategies as humans and the neural bases of strategic exploration in monkeys are largely unknown. We designed a sequential choice task to investigate whether monkeys mobilize strategic exploration based on whether information can improve subsequent choice, but also to ask the novel question about whether monkeys adjust their exploratory choices based on the contingency between choice and information, by sometimes providing the counterfactual feedback about the unchosen option. We s

SUBMITTER: Jahn CI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9910800 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature