TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Uncertainty and exploration in a restless bandit problem
JO  - Topics in cognitive science
A1  - Speekenbrink, Maarten
A1  - Konstantinidis, Emmanouil
SP  - 351
EP  - 367
VL  - 7
IS  - 2
N2  - Decision making in noisy and changing environments requires a fine balance between exploiting knowledge about good courses of action and exploring the environment in order to improve upon this knowledge. We present an experiment on a restless bandit task in which participants made repeated choices between options for which the average rewards changed over time. Comparing a number of computational models of participants' behavior in this task, we find evidence that a substantial number of them balanced exploration and exploitation by considering the probability that an option offers the maximum reward out of all the available options.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1756-8765
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tops.12145
ID  - ref1
ER  -