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    "pk": 50142,
    "title": "How Habit Learning Guides Planning: A Normative View and Behavioral Evidence",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Human behavior is determined by both learned habits and prospective planning. Because planning is computationally expensive, humans face two meta-control challenges: They must determine when to plan and, if so, which potential futures to consider. We propose that habit learning itself could solve these meta-control problems by prioritizing which futures to explore and to what extent. We show how this notion emerges from a normative Bayesian model and test one of the resulting predictions empirically. To do so, we developed a behavioral paradigm that operationalizes model-based planning as spatial navigation through a maze. Our findings suggest that humans indeed incorporate learned habitual information during planning in a manner closely aligned with the Bayesian model. This corroborates existing reinforcement learning accounts and contributes a normative and unifying perspective.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
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    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Psychology; Behavioral Science; Decision making; Learning; Bayesian modeling; Computational Modeling; Quantitative Behavior"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Abstracts with Poster Presentation (accepted as Abstracts)",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6dh7s7b8",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Maximilian",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "MittenbŸhler",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of TŸbingen",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Valentin",
            "middle_name": "Leonard",
            "last_name": "Durach",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of TŸbingen",
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        },
        {
            "first_name": "Johanna",
            "middle_name": "Katharina",
            "last_name": "Theuer",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of TŸbingen",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Martin",
            "middle_name": "V.",
            "last_name": "Butz",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of TŸbingen",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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