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Rational decisions in multi-step environments with few rollouts

2025-08-13

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<p>People routinely make decisions by mentally simulating the potential outcomes of their actions. However, this process appears computationally intractable in real-world situations involving sequences of decisions with exponentially many possible futures. How the brain efficiently evaluates temporally extended decisions despite limited cognitive resources remains a fundamental puzzle. Here we present a mathematic...

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Literature Corpus work: 3b59cbf0-9b6e-5574-85e3-4441bedfed44
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/gpt39_v1

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