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. 2018 Jul 31;115(31):7846-7848.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1809865115. Epub 2018 Jul 6.

Information utility in the human brain

Ifat Levy  1   2
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Information utility in the human brain

Ifat Levy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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The author declares no conflict of interest.

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Fig. 1.
Experimental design. (A) Trial structure. (B) Examples of two trials with different outcome and information probabilities.
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