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Rational inattention in mice
Behavior exhibited by humans and other organisms is generally inconsistent and biased and, thus, is often labeled irrational. However, the origins of this seemingly suboptimal behavior remain elusive. We developed a behavioral task and normative framework to reveal how organisms should allocate thei...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8896787/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35245128 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abj8935 |
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author | Grujic, Nikola Brus, Jeroen Burdakov, Denis Polania, Rafael |
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description | Behavior exhibited by humans and other organisms is generally inconsistent and biased and, thus, is often labeled irrational. However, the origins of this seemingly suboptimal behavior remain elusive. We developed a behavioral task and normative framework to reveal how organisms should allocate their limited processing resources such that sensory precision and its related metabolic investment are balanced to guarantee maximal utility. We found that mice act as rational inattentive agents by adaptively allocating their sensory resources in a way that maximizes reward consumption in previously unexperienced stimulus-reward association environments. Unexpectedly, perception of commonly occurring stimuli was relatively imprecise; however, this apparent statistical fallacy implies “awareness” and efficient adaptation to their neurocognitive limitations. Arousal systems carry reward distribution information of sensory signals, and distributional reinforcement learning mechanisms regulate sensory precision via top-down normalization. These findings reveal how organisms efficiently perceive and adapt to previously unexperienced environmental contexts within the constraints imposed by neurobiology. |
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spelling | pubmed-88967872022-03-14 Rational inattention in mice Grujic, Nikola Brus, Jeroen Burdakov, Denis Polania, Rafael Sci Adv Neuroscience Behavior exhibited by humans and other organisms is generally inconsistent and biased and, thus, is often labeled irrational. However, the origins of this seemingly suboptimal behavior remain elusive. We developed a behavioral task and normative framework to reveal how organisms should allocate their limited processing resources such that sensory precision and its related metabolic investment are balanced to guarantee maximal utility. We found that mice act as rational inattentive agents by adaptively allocating their sensory resources in a way that maximizes reward consumption in previously unexperienced stimulus-reward association environments. Unexpectedly, perception of commonly occurring stimuli was relatively imprecise; however, this apparent statistical fallacy implies “awareness” and efficient adaptation to their neurocognitive limitations. Arousal systems carry reward distribution information of sensory signals, and distributional reinforcement learning mechanisms regulate sensory precision via top-down normalization. These findings reveal how organisms efficiently perceive and adapt to previously unexperienced environmental contexts within the constraints imposed by neurobiology. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2022-03-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8896787/ /pubmed/35245128 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abj8935 Text en Copyright © 2022 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Grujic, Nikola Brus, Jeroen Burdakov, Denis Polania, Rafael Rational inattention in mice |
title | Rational inattention in mice |
title_full | Rational inattention in mice |
title_fullStr | Rational inattention in mice |
title_full_unstemmed | Rational inattention in mice |
title_short | Rational inattention in mice |
title_sort | rational inattention in mice |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8896787/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35245128 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abj8935 |
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