Policy Adjustment in a Dynamic Economic Game

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 1; no. 1; p. e103
• Main Authors: Li, Jian, McClure, Samuel M., King-Casas, Brooks, Read Montague, P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 20.12.2006; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adult; Behavior; Brain; Brain - physiology; Choice learning; Circuits; Computational Biology/Computational Neuroscience; Contingency; Corpus Striatum - physiology; Cortex (frontal); Decision making; Decision Making - physiology; Dopamine; Emotions; Female; Frontal gyrus; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Game theory; Harvesting; Humans; Laboratories; Learning; Learning - physiology; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Medical imaging; Medicine; Mental task performance; Models, Economic; Models, Neurological; Models, Psychological; Neostriatum; Neuroimaging; Neurology; Neuroscience/Cognitive Neuroscience; Neurosciences; Operant conditioning; Paradigms; Prefrontal cortex; Prefrontal Cortex - physiology; Reinforcement; Reinforcement (Psychology); Reward; Task complexity; Young Adult; United States > US; Texas

Making sequential decisions to harvest rewards is a notoriously difficult problem. One difficulty is that the real world is not stationary and the reward expected from a contemplated action may depend in complex ways on the history of an animal's choices. Previous functional neuroimaging work c...