Explore-exploit decisions require us to trade off the benefits of exploring unknown options to
learn more about them, with exploiting known options, for immediate reward. Such decisions …

Foraging is a fundamental behavior, and many types of animals appear to have solved
foraging problems using a shared set of mechanisms. Perhaps the most common foraging …

When learning the value of actions in volatile environments, humans often make seemingly
irrational decisions that fail to maximize expected value. We reasoned that these 'non …

Mind wandering is an ubiquitous phenomenon in everyday life. In the cognitive
neurosciences, mind wandering has been associated with several distinct neural processes …

How do individuals decide to act based on a rewarding status quo versus an unexplored
choice that might yield a better outcome? Recent evidence suggests that individuals may …

Highlights•Computation noise drives human decision variability under uncertainty.•
Computation noise sets cognitive constraints on information processing.•Computation noise …

Successful interaction with the environment requires flexible updating of our beliefs about
the world. By estimating the likelihood of future events, it is possible to prepare appropriate …

Foraging theory prescribes when optimal foragers should leave the current option for more
rewarding alternatives. Actual foragers often exploit options longer than prescribed by the …

An exploration-exploitation trade-off, the arbitration between sampling a lesser-known
against a known rich option, is thought to be solved using computationally demanding …

Adaptive behavior in a changing world requires flexibly adapting one's rate of learning to the
rate of environmental change. Recent studies have examined the computational …