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Learning to Attend Through Value-Based Hypothesis Testing

2026-03-12

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In complex environments, humans must determine which features are relevant for learning and decision-making. Psychological theories offer competing accounts of this process: associative models suggest that attention emerges gradually through learned changes in feature values, whereas hypothesis-driven accounts propose that learners selectively attend to actively tested rules. Because attentional states are covert,...

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Literature Corpus work: 3e892474-a55c-5227-8016-242534deef87
DOI: 10.64898/2026.03.11.710688

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