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Novelty and uncertainty differentially drive exploration across development
Across the lifespan, individuals frequently choose between exploiting known rewarding options or exploring unknown alternatives. A large body of work has suggested that children may explore more than adults. However, because novelty and reward uncertainty are often correlated, it is unclear how they...
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eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10431916/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37585251 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.84260 |
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author | Nussenbaum, Kate Martin, Rebecca E Maulhardt, Sean Yang, Yi (Jen) Bizzell-Hatcher, Greer Bhatt, Naiti S Koenig, Maximilian Rosenbaum, Gail M O'Doherty, John P Cockburn, Jeffrey Hartley, Catherine A |
author_facet | Nussenbaum, Kate Martin, Rebecca E Maulhardt, Sean Yang, Yi (Jen) Bizzell-Hatcher, Greer Bhatt, Naiti S Koenig, Maximilian Rosenbaum, Gail M O'Doherty, John P Cockburn, Jeffrey Hartley, Catherine A |
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description | Across the lifespan, individuals frequently choose between exploiting known rewarding options or exploring unknown alternatives. A large body of work has suggested that children may explore more than adults. However, because novelty and reward uncertainty are often correlated, it is unclear how they differentially influence decision-making across development. Here, children, adolescents, and adults (ages 8–27 years, N = 122) completed an adapted version of a recently developed value-guided decision-making task that decouples novelty and uncertainty. In line with prior studies, we found that exploration decreased with increasing age. Critically, participants of all ages demonstrated a similar bias to select choice options with greater novelty, whereas aversion to reward uncertainty increased into adulthood. Computational modeling of participant choices revealed that whereas adolescents and adults demonstrated attenuated uncertainty aversion for more novel choice options, children’s choices were not influenced by reward uncertainty. |
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spelling | pubmed-104319162023-08-17 Novelty and uncertainty differentially drive exploration across development Nussenbaum, Kate Martin, Rebecca E Maulhardt, Sean Yang, Yi (Jen) Bizzell-Hatcher, Greer Bhatt, Naiti S Koenig, Maximilian Rosenbaum, Gail M O'Doherty, John P Cockburn, Jeffrey Hartley, Catherine A eLife Neuroscience Across the lifespan, individuals frequently choose between exploiting known rewarding options or exploring unknown alternatives. A large body of work has suggested that children may explore more than adults. However, because novelty and reward uncertainty are often correlated, it is unclear how they differentially influence decision-making across development. Here, children, adolescents, and adults (ages 8–27 years, N = 122) completed an adapted version of a recently developed value-guided decision-making task that decouples novelty and uncertainty. In line with prior studies, we found that exploration decreased with increasing age. Critically, participants of all ages demonstrated a similar bias to select choice options with greater novelty, whereas aversion to reward uncertainty increased into adulthood. Computational modeling of participant choices revealed that whereas adolescents and adults demonstrated attenuated uncertainty aversion for more novel choice options, children’s choices were not influenced by reward uncertainty. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2023-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10431916/ /pubmed/37585251 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.84260 Text en © 2023, Nussenbaum, Martin et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Nussenbaum, Kate Martin, Rebecca E Maulhardt, Sean Yang, Yi (Jen) Bizzell-Hatcher, Greer Bhatt, Naiti S Koenig, Maximilian Rosenbaum, Gail M O'Doherty, John P Cockburn, Jeffrey Hartley, Catherine A Novelty and uncertainty differentially drive exploration across development |
title | Novelty and uncertainty differentially drive exploration across development |
title_full | Novelty and uncertainty differentially drive exploration across development |
title_fullStr | Novelty and uncertainty differentially drive exploration across development |
title_full_unstemmed | Novelty and uncertainty differentially drive exploration across development |
title_short | Novelty and uncertainty differentially drive exploration across development |
title_sort | novelty and uncertainty differentially drive exploration across development |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10431916/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37585251 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.84260 |
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