Short-term reward experience biases inference despite dissociable neural correlates

Making a good decision often requires the weighing of relative short-term rewards against long-term benefits, yet how the brain does this is not understood. Here, authors show that long-term beliefs are biased by reward experience and that dissociable brain regions facilitate both types of learning.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Adrian G. Fischer, Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde, Markus Ullsperger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01703-0