Tonic exploration governs both flexibility and lapses.

In many cognitive tasks, lapses (spontaneous errors) are tacitly dismissed as the result of nuisance processes like sensorimotor noise, fatigue, or disengagement. However, some lapses could also be caused by exploratory noise: randomness in behavior that facilitates learning in changing environments...

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Main Authors: R Becket Ebitz, Brianna J Sleezer, Hank P Jedema, Charles W Bradberry, Benjamin Y Hayden
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-11-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007475