{"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":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Psychology; Behavioral Science; Decision making; Learning; Bayesian modeling; Computational Modeling; Quantitative Behavior"}],"section":"Abstracts with Poster Presentation (accepted as Abstracts)","is_remote":true,"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","department":""},{"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","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T10:00:00-08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50142/galley/38104/download/"}]}