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Prospective Optimization with Limited Resources
The future is uncertain because some forthcoming events are unpredictable and also because our ability to foresee the myriad consequences of our own actions is limited. Here we studied how humans select actions under such extrinsic and intrinsic uncertainty, in view of the exponentially expanding number of prospects on a branching multivalued visual stimulus. Gepshtein et al.
Image Credit: Gepshtein et al. and Trisha Williams of Pigeon Hole Productions
Citation: (2015) PLoS Computational Biology Issue Image | Vol. 11(9) September 2015. PLoS Comput Biol 11(9): ev11.i09. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pcbi.v11.i09
Published: September 30, 2015
Copyright: © 2015 Gepshtein et al, Williams. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The future is uncertain because some forthcoming events are unpredictable and also because our ability to foresee the myriad consequences of our own actions is limited. Here we studied how humans select actions under such extrinsic and intrinsic uncertainty, in view of the exponentially expanding number of prospects on a branching multivalued visual stimulus. Gepshtein et al.
Image Credit: Gepshtein et al. and Trisha Williams of Pigeon Hole Productions