The two kinds of free energy and the Bayesian revolution

S Gottwald, DA Braun - PLoS computational biology, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The concept of free energy has its origins in 19th century thermodynamics, but has recently
found its way into the behavioral and neural sciences, where it has been promoted for its …

Origin of perseveration in the trade-off between reward and complexity

SJ Gershman - Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
When humans and other animals make repeated choices, they tend to repeat previously
chosen actions independently of their reward history. This paper locates the origin of …

Modeling word and morpheme order in natural language as an efficient trade-off of memory and surprisal.

M Hahn, J Degen, R Futrell - Psychological Review, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Memory limitations are known to constrain language comprehension and production, and
have been argued to account for crosslinguistic word order regularities. However, a …

An Information‐Theoretic Account of Availability Effects in Language Production

R Futrell - Topics in Cognitive Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
I present a computational‐level model of language production in terms of a combination of
information theory and control theory in which words are chosen incrementally in order to …

Bounded rational decision-making from elementary computations that reduce uncertainty

S Gottwald, DA Braun - Entropy, 2019 - mdpi.com
In its most basic form, decision-making can be viewed as a computational process that
progressively eliminates alternatives, thereby reducing uncertainty. Such processes are …

[PDF][PDF] Environment Design for Biased Decision Makers.

G Yu, CJ Ho - IJCAI, 2022 - chienjuho.com
We study the environment design problem for biased decision makers. In an environment
design problem, an informed principal aims to update the decision making environment to …

Nash equilibria in human sensorimotor interactions explained by Q-learning with intrinsic costs

C Lindig-León, G Schmid, DA Braun - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The Nash equilibrium concept has previously been shown to be an important tool to
understand human sensorimotor interactions, where different actors vie for minimizing their …

Specialization in hierarchical learning systems: a unified information-theoretic approach for supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning

H Hihn, DA Braun - Neural Processing Letters, 2020 - Springer
Joining multiple decision-makers together is a powerful way to obtain more sophisticated
decision-making systems, but requires to address the questions of division of labor and …

From Bayes-optimal to heuristic decision-making in a two-alternative forced choice task with an information-theoretic bounded rationality model

C Lindig-León, N Kaur, DA Braun - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Bayes optimal and heuristic decision-making schemes are often considered fundamentally
opposed to each other as a framework for studying human choice behavior, although …

An information-theoretic on-line learning principle for specialization in hierarchical decision-making systems

H Hihn, S Gottwald, DA Braun - 2019 IEEE 58th conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Information-theoretic bounded rationality describes utility-optimizing decision-makers whose
limited information-processing capabilities are formalized by information constraints. One of …