Humans decompose tasks by trading off utility and computational cost

• Carlos G. Correa ,

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

  * E-mail: cgcorrea@princeton.edu

  Affiliation Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9138-7818

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• Mark K. Ho,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Frederick Callaway,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Nathaniel D. Daw,

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

  Affiliations Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Thomas L. Griffiths

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

  Affiliations Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

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