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When the simplest voluntary decisions appear patently suboptimal.

Emilio SalinasJoshua A SeidemanTerrence R Stanford
Published in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2019)
Rahnev & Denison (R&D) catalog numerous experiments in which performance deviates, often in subtle ways, from the theoretical ideal. We discuss an extreme case, an elementary behavior (reactive saccades to single targets) for which a simple contextual manipulation results in responses that are dramatically different from those expected based on reward maximization - and yet are highly informative and amenable to mechanistic examination.
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