Why unchosen options linger in our minds

In the 1930s, philosopher John Dewey stated: “We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.” The question of how we learn from the consequences of our actions has been investigated for decades. When deliberating between options, it is assumed that the outcome of our choice...

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Autores principales: Bavard, Sophie, Palminteri, Stefano
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Research Highlight
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8575880/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34750540
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02803-w
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spelling pubmed-85758802021-11-19 Why unchosen options linger in our minds Bavard, Sophie Palminteri, Stefano Commun Biol Research Highlight In the 1930s, philosopher John Dewey stated: “We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.” The question of how we learn from the consequences of our actions has been investigated for decades. When deliberating between options, it is assumed that the outcome of our choice is used as a feedback signal to learn the value of the chosen option. But what about the forgone alternative? In a recent paper, Biderman and Shohamy show that we also revise the valuation of forgone options, assuming them to be inversely related to that of chosen ones. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8575880/ /pubmed/34750540 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02803-w Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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