Balancing Model-Based and Memory-Free Action Selection under Competitive Pressure

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In competitive situations, winning depends on selecting actions that surprise the opponent. Such unpredictable action can be generated based on representations of the opponent’s strategy and choice history (model-based counter-prediction) or by choosing actions in a memory-free, stochastic manner. Across five different experiments using a variant of a matching-pennies game with simulated and human opponents we fou...

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Literature Corpus work

c54a6c4b-07d6-54b7-a2e7-ac78d7e04960

DOI

10.1101/662700