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- Title
Interrupting behaviour: Minimizing decision costs via temporal commitment and low-level interrupts.
- Authors
Lloyd, Kevin; Dayan, Peter
- Abstract
Ideal decision-makers should constantly assess all sources of information about opportunities and threats, and be able to redetermine their choices promptly in the face of change. However, perpetual monitoring and reassessment impose inordinate sensing and computational costs, making them impractical for animals and machines alike. The obvious alternative of committing for extended periods of time to limited sensory strategies associated with particular courses of action can be dangerous and wasteful. Here, we explore the intermediate possibility of making provisional temporal commitments whilst admitting interruption based on limited broader observation. We simulate foraging under threat of predation to elucidate the benefits of such a scheme. We relate our results to diseases of distractibility and roving attention, and consider mechanistic substrates such as noradrenergic neuromodulation.
- Subjects
NORADRENERGIC mechanisms; COMPUTATIONAL biology; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGY; DECISION making
- Publication
PLoS Computational Biology, 2018, Vol 14, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1553-734X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005916