Optimal habits can develop spontaneously through sensitivity to local cost
Habits and rituals are expressed universally across animal species. These behaviors are advantageous in allowing sequential behaviors to be performed without cognitive overload, and appear to rely on neural circuits that are relatively benign but vulnerable to takeover by extreme contexts, neuropsyc...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS),
2012-03-30T18:17:53Z.
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