PLANNING ROUTES ACROSS ECONOMIC TERRAINS: MAXIMIZING UTILITY, FOLLOWING HEURISTICS

PLANNING ROUTES ACROSS ECONOMIC TERRAINS: MAXIMIZING UTILITY, FOLLOWING HEURISTICS

We designed an economic task to investigate human planning of routes in landscapes where travel in different kinds of terrain incurs different costs. Participants moved their finger across a touch screen from a starting point to a destination. The screen was divided into distinct kinds of terrain an...

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Main Authors: Hang eZhang, Soumya V Maddula, Laurence T Maloney
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2010-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Decision Making
navigation
Bayesian decision theory
Heuristics
optimality
route selection
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00214/full

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