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    "pk": 49911,
    "title": "Naturalistic action sampling as foraging in the option space",
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    "abstract": "Human decision-making involves navigating unbounded spaces of possible goals, subgoals, and action sequences. Yet, computational models typically assume pre-defined option sets. This creates a critical gap between the algorithms developed in cognitive science research on decision-making and the open nature of real-world decisions. We propose that option generation in open-ended settings operates as a search through structured decision space. Drawing on foraging theory, we hypothesized that option generation follows Lévy flight distributions, a pattern observed in both spatial foraging and memory retrieval. We found that the inter-generation time between consecutive responses in open-ended option generation problems approximated a Lévy distribution, while semantic distances demonstrated properties of heavy-tailed distributions. These findings reveal connections between action planning, information search, and memory retrieval, suggesting shared computational principles in how humans explore unbounded decision spaces.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Psychology; Decision making; Evolution; Memory; Natural Language Processing; Semantic memory; Knowledge representation; Statistics"
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    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4g3827v6",
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        {
            "first_name": "Alina",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Dracheva",
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            "institution": "Dartmouth College",
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        {
            "first_name": "Jonathan",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Phillips",
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            "institution": "Dartmouth College",
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    "date_submitted": null,
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    "date_published": "2025-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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