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    "pk": 27461,
    "title": "Information Seeking as Chasing Anticipated Prediction Errors",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "When faced with delayed, uncertain rewards, humans andother animals usually prefer to know the eventual outcomesin advance. This preference for cues providing advance infor-mation can lead to seemingly suboptimal choices, where lessreward is preferred over more reward. Here, we introduce areinforcement-learning model of this behavior, the anticipatedprediction error (APE) model, based on the idea that predic-tion errors themselves can be rewarding. As a result, animalswill sometimes pick options that yield large prediction errors,even when the expected rewards are smaller. We compare theAPE model against an alternative information-bonus model,where information itself is viewed as rewarding. These mod-els are evaluated against a newly collected dataset with humanparticipants. The APE model fits the data as well or betterthan the other models, with fewer free parameters, thus provid-ing a more robust and parsimonious account of the suboptimalchoices. These results suggest that anticipated prediction er-rors can be an important signal underpinning decision making.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "information seeking; early resolution of uncer-tainty; anticipated prediction errors; forward sampling."
        }
    ],
    "section": "Posters: Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/11k5w5dg",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Jian-Qiao",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Zhu",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Warwick",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Wendi",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Xiang",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Warwick",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Elliot",
            "middle_name": "A.",
            "last_name": "Ludvig",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Warwick",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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