Continuous decisions
| العنوان: | Continuous decisions |
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| المؤلفون: | Seng Bum Michael Yoo, Benjamin Hayden, John Pearson |
| المصدر: | Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci |
| بيانات النشر: | The Royal Society, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Primates, 0301 basic medicine, 03 medical and health sciences, 030104 developmental biology, 0302 clinical medicine, Decision Making, Animals, Humans, Articles, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Choice Behavior, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology |
| الوصف: | Humans and other animals evolved to make decisions that extend over time with continuous and ever-changing options. Nonetheless, the academic study of decision-making is mostly limited to the simple case of choice between two options. Here, we advocate that the study of choice should expand to includecontinuous decisions. Continuous decisions, by our definition, involve a continuum of possible responses and take place over an extended period of time during which the response is continuously subject to modification. In most continuous decisions, the range of options can fluctuate and is affected by recent responses, making consideration of reciprocal feedback between choices and the environment essential. The study of continuous decisions raises new questions, such as how abstract processes of valuation and comparison are co-implemented with action planning and execution, how we simulate the large number of possible futures our choices lead to, and how our brains employ hierarchical structure to make choices more efficiently. While microeconomic theory has proven invaluable for discrete decisions, we propose that engineering control theory may serve as a better foundation for continuous ones. And while the concept of value has proven foundational for discrete decisions, goal states and policies may prove more useful for continuous ones.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Existence and prevalence of economic behaviours among non-human primates’. |
| تدمد: | 1471-2970 0962-8436 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::677f463de985acecc4525992c3562d4bTest https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0664Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....677f463de985acecc4525992c3562d4b |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 14712970 09628436 |
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