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. 2019 Jan:42:e56.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X18001930.

Beyond "incentive hope": Information sampling and learning under reward uncertainty

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Beyond "incentive hope": Information sampling and learning under reward uncertainty

Maya Zhe Wang et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2019 Jan.

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Information seeking, especially when motivated by strategic learning and intrinsic curiosity, could render the new mechanism "incentive hope" proposed by Anselme & Güntürkün sufficient, but not necessary to explain how reward uncertainty promotes reward seeking and consumption. Naturalistic and foraging-like tasks can help parse motivational processes that bridge learning and foraging behaviors and identify their neural underpinnings.

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