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Beyond "incentive hope": Information sampling and learning under reward uncertainty.

Maya Zhe WangBenjamin Yost Hayden
Published in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2019)
Information seeking, especially when motivated by strategic learning and intrinsic curiosity, could render the new mechanism "incentive hope" proposed by Anselme & Güntürkün sufficient, but not necessary to explain how reward uncertainty promotes reward seeking and consumption. Naturalistic and foraging-like tasks can help parse motivational processes that bridge learning and foraging behaviors and identify their neural underpinnings.
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