Precisely timed behavior and accurate time perception plays a critical role in our everyday lives, as our wellbeing and even survival can depend on well-timed decisions. Although the temporal structure of the world around us is essential for human decision making, we know surprisingly little about how representation of temporal structure of our everyday environment impacts decision making. How does the representation of temporal structure affect our ability to generate well-timed decisions? Here we address this question by using a well-established dynamic probabilistic learning task. Using computational modeling, we found that human subjects' beliefs about temporal structure are reflected in their choices to either exploit their current knowledge or to explore novel options. The model-based analysis illustrates a large within-group and within-subject heterogeneity. To explain these results, we propose a normative model for how temporal structure is used in decision making, based on the semi-Markov formalism in the active inference framework. We discuss potential key applications of the presented approach to the fields of cognitive phenotyping and computational psychiatry.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:91304 |
| Date | 22 May 2024 |
| Creators | Marković, Dimitrije, Reiter, Andrea M. F., Kiebel, Stefan J. |
| Publisher | Frontiers Research Foundation |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 1662-5153, 962494, 10.3389/fnbeh.2022.962494, info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft/SFB 940: Volition und kognitive Kontrolle: Mechanismen, Modulatoren, Dysfunktionen/178833530//Neurokomputationale Modellierung von Metakontrolle auf der Basis Bayes'scher Inferenz in einer kon-textspezifischen Hierarchie von Zeitskalen/A09, info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft/SFB 940: Volition und kognitive Kontrolle: Mechanismen, Modulatoren, Dysfunktionen/178833530//Die Rolle des Effizienz-Flexibilitäts-Dilemmas für Lernstrategien über die Lebensspanne/B07, info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft/TRR 265: Verlust und Wiedererlangung der Kontrolle über den Drogenkonsum: Von Trajektorien über Mechanismen bis hin zu Interventionen/ 402170461//Maladaptive Kontextinferenz als Schlüsselmechanismus verminderter Kontrolle/B09, info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung/Deutschlands Exzellenzstrategie (EXC)/390696704//Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop/ (CeTI) |
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