Short-term reward experience biases inference despite dissociable neural correlates

Making a good decision often requires the weighing of relative short-term rewards against long-term benefits, yet how the brain does this is not understood. Here, authors show that long-term beliefs are biased by reward experience and that dissociable brain regions facilitate both types of learning.

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Main Authors: Adrian G. Fischer, Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde, Markus Ullsperger
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/eb6b092c2f4e4855afca8a990fe0144f
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Summary:Making a good decision often requires the weighing of relative short-term rewards against long-term benefits, yet how the brain does this is not understood. Here, authors show that long-term beliefs are biased by reward experience and that dissociable brain regions facilitate both types of learning.