Psychology
Novelty as a drive of human exploration in complex stochastic environments
A. Modirshanechi, W. Lin, et al.
Humans explore environments even when rewards require intermediate, reward-free steps. This study shows people persistently investigate a highly stochastic but reward-free subregion, and that their behavior is best explained by novelty-driven — not information-gain or surprise — exploration. Research conducted by Alireza Modirshanechi, Wei-Hsiang Lin, He A. Xu, Michael H. Herzog, and Wulfram Gerstner.
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