When making behavioral decisions, individuals need to balance between exploiting known
options or exploring new ones. How individuals solve this exploration-exploitation dilemma …

Background Exploratory behavior, as an essential component of decision-making, is
indispensable for maximizing long-term benefits, making it a crucial factor in adolescents' …

We sought to provide evidence for a combined effect of two attentional mechanisms during
associative learning. Participants' eye movements were recorded as they predicted the …

Simple Summary To adapt to a new environment, people must choose between using
strategies that previously produced the expected effect in a similar context and trying new …

The learning process encompasses exploration and exploitation phases. While
reinforcement learning models have revealed functional and neuroscientific distinctions …

Many decisions require prioritising relevant over less relevant information. In risky
environments, probabilities provide the weights to use information according to their …

Human cognition is incredibly flexible, allowing us to thrive within diverse environments.
However, humans also tend to stick to familiar strategies, even when there are better …

The explore/exploit tradeoff is a fundamental property of choice selection during reward-
guided decision making. In perceptual decision making, higher certainty decisions are more …

Humans are highly proficient in learning about the environments in which they operate. They
form flexible spatial representations of their surroundings that can be leveraged with ease …

Research suggests that search and foraging behaviours serve as valuable markers for
pathological ageing. However, existing tasks have been limited to two-dimensional settings …