Optimal reward harvesting in complex perceptual environments

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 5232-5237

  Navalpakkam, Vidhya ^a   Koch, Christof ^a,b   Rangel, Antonio ^a   Perona, Pietro ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Multiple targets; Reward; Search; Visual saliency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MODEL; MONEY; MOTOR SYSTEM; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; TIME;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERCEPTION; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 77950439316     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0911972107     Document Type: Article

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