Novelty is not surprise: Human exploratory and adaptive behavior in sequential decision-making

He A. Xu; Alireza Modirshanechi; Marco P. Lehmann; Wulfram Gerstner; Michael H. Herzog

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009070

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Novelty is not surprise: Human exploratory and adaptive behavior in sequential decision-making

He A. Xu ,

Contributed equally to this work with: He A. Xu, Alireza Modirshanechi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Laboratory of Psychophysics, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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Alireza Modirshanechi ,

Contributed equally to this work with: He A. Xu, Alireza Modirshanechi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: alireza.modirshanechi@epfl.ch

Affiliations Brain-Mind Institute, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, School of Computer and Communication Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7870-8602

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Marco P. Lehmann,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliations Brain-Mind Institute, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, School of Computer and Communication Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5274-144X

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Wulfram Gerstner ,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

¶‡ WG and MHH also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Brain-Mind Institute, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, School of Computer and Communication Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4344-2189

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Michael H. Herzog

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

¶‡ WG and MHH also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Laboratory of Psychophysics, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, Brain-Mind Institute, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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Novelty is not surprise: Human exploratory and adaptive behavior in sequential decision-making

He A. Xu,
Alireza Modirshanechi,
Marco P. Lehmann,
Wulfram Gerstner,
Michael H. Herzog

Published: June 3, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009070

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