About the Authors

Thomas Akam

thomas.akam@neuro.fchampalimaud.org

Affiliations Champalimaud Neuroscience Program, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Rui Costa

Affiliation Champalimaud Neuroscience Program, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal

Peter Dayan

Affiliation Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: TA. Wrote the paper: TA RC PD. Concieved and designed the simulations: TA RC PD. Performed the simulations: TA.