Entrenchment in Human Exploration: A Future-Path Model of Early Convergence

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Human learners in exploration-exploitation tasks often stop exploring too early and persist with an option that is not the best available. This paper formalizes this pattern as ''entrenchment'' and proposes a cognitive model to capture its underlying mechanism. The decision-maker evaluates each option by simulating their own future choices, represented as a probability distribution over...

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• Catechol O-Methyltransferase
• Learning
• Memory, Short-Term
• Models, Neurological
• Photic Stimulation
• Psychomotor Performance
• Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled
• Reinforcement, Psychology

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Literature Corpus work

eca1a18b-31e2-5444-92c8-a44638bdf823

DOI

10.21203/rs.3.rs-10504315/v1