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  1. Article ; Online: The effort of asking good questions.

    Gottlieb, Jacqueline

    Nature human behaviour

    2021  Volume 5, Issue 7, Page(s) 823–824

    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-05-27
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Comment
    ISSN 2397-3374
    ISSN (online) 2397-3374
    DOI 10.1038/s41562-021-01132-6
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  2. Article ; Online: The parieto-occipital cortex is a candidate neural substrate for the human ability to approximate Bayesian inference.

    Singletary, Nicholas M / Gottlieb, Jacqueline / Horga, Guillermo

    Communications biology

    2024  Volume 7, Issue 1, Page(s) 165

    Abstract: Adaptive decision-making often requires one to infer unobservable states based on incomplete information. Bayesian logic prescribes that individuals should do so by estimating the posterior probability by integrating the prior probability with new ... ...

    Abstract Adaptive decision-making often requires one to infer unobservable states based on incomplete information. Bayesian logic prescribes that individuals should do so by estimating the posterior probability by integrating the prior probability with new information, but the neural basis of this integration is incompletely understood. We record fMRI during a task in which participants infer the posterior probability of a hidden state while we independently modulate the prior probability and likelihood of evidence regarding the state; the task incentivizes participants to make accurate inferences and dissociates expected value from posterior probability. Here we show that activation in a region of left parieto-occipital cortex independently tracks the subjective posterior probability, combining its subcomponents of prior probability and evidence likelihood, and reflecting the individual participants' systematic deviations from objective probabilities. The parieto-occipital cortex is thus a candidate neural substrate for humans' ability to approximate Bayesian inference by integrating prior beliefs with new information.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Bayes Theorem ; Cerebral Cortex/physiology ; Probability ; Occipital Lobe/diagnostic imaging
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-09
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 2399-3642
    ISSN (online) 2399-3642
    DOI 10.1038/s42003-024-05821-6
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  3. Article ; Online: Inefficient prioritization of task-relevant attributes during instrumental information demand.

    Rischall, Isabella / Hunter, Laura / Jensen, Greg / Gottlieb, Jacqueline

    Nature communications

    2023  Volume 14, Issue 1, Page(s) 3174

    Abstract: In natural settings, people evaluate complex multi-attribute situations and decide which attribute to request information about. Little is known about how people make this selection and specifically, how they identify individual observations that best ... ...

    Abstract In natural settings, people evaluate complex multi-attribute situations and decide which attribute to request information about. Little is known about how people make this selection and specifically, how they identify individual observations that best predict the value of a multi-attribute situation. Here show that, in a simple task of information demand, participants inefficiently query attributes that have high individual value but are relatively uninformative about a total payoff. This inefficiency is robust in two instrumental conditions in which gathering less informative observations leads to significantly lower rewards. Across individuals, variations in the sensitivity to informativeness is associated with personality metrics, showing negative associations with extraversion and thrill seeking and positive associations with stress tolerance and need for cognition. Thus, people select informative queries using sub-optimal strategies that are associated with personality traits and influence consequential choices.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Cognition ; Personality ; Reward
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-06-01
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2553671-0
    ISSN 2041-1723 ; 2041-1723
    ISSN (online) 2041-1723
    ISSN 2041-1723
    DOI 10.1038/s41467-023-38821-x
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  4. Article: A Distinct Neural Code Supports Prospection of Future Probabilities During Instrumental Information-Seeking.

    Singletary, Nicholas M / Horga, Guillermo / Gottlieb, Jacqueline

    bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology

    2023  

    Abstract: To make adaptive decisions, we must actively demand information, but relatively little is known about the mechanisms of active information gathering. An open question is how the brain estimates expected information gains (EIG) when comparing the current ... ...

    Abstract To make adaptive decisions, we must actively demand information, but relatively little is known about the mechanisms of active information gathering. An open question is how the brain estimates expected information gains (EIG) when comparing the current decision uncertainty with the uncertainty that is expected after gathering information. We examined this question using fMRI in a task in which people placed bids to obtain information in conditions that varied independently by prior decision uncertainty, information diagnosticity, and the penalty for an erroneous choice. Consistent with value of information theory, bids were sensitive to EIG and its components of prior certainty and expected posterior certainty. Expected posterior certainty was decoded above chance from multivoxel activation patterns in the posterior parietal and extrastriate cortices. This representation was independent of instrumental rewards and overlapped with distinct representations of EIG and prior certainty. Thus, posterior parietal and extrastriate cortices are candidates for mediating the prospection of posterior probabilities as a key step to estimate EIG during active information gathering.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-11-27
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Preprint
    DOI 10.1101/2023.11.27.568849
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  5. Article ; Online: Understanding active sampling strategies: Empirical approaches and implications for attention and decision research.

    Gottlieb, Jacqueline

    Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior

    2017  Volume 102, Page(s) 150–160

    Abstract: In natural behavior we actively gather information using attention and active sensing behaviors (such as shifts of gaze) to sample relevant cues. However, while attention and decision making are naturally coordinated, in the laboratory they have been ... ...

    Abstract In natural behavior we actively gather information using attention and active sensing behaviors (such as shifts of gaze) to sample relevant cues. However, while attention and decision making are naturally coordinated, in the laboratory they have been dissociated. Attention is studied independently of the actions it serves. Conversely, decision theories make the simplifying assumption that the relevant information is given, and do not attempt to describe how the decision maker may learn and implement active sampling policies. In this paper I review recent studies that address questions of attentional learning, cue validity and information seeking in humans and non-human primates. These studies suggest that learning a sampling policy involves large scale interactions between networks of attention and valuation, which implement these policies based on reward maximization, uncertainty reduction and the intrinsic utility of cognitive states. I discuss the importance of using such paradigms for formalizing the role of attention, as well as devising more realistic theories of decision making that capture a broader range of empirical observations.
    MeSH term(s) Attention/physiology ; Choice Behavior/physiology ; Decision Making/physiology ; Eye Movements/physiology ; Humans ; Learning/physiology ; Reward
    Language English
    Publishing date 2017-08-24
    Publishing country Italy
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Review
    ZDB-ID 280622-8
    ISSN 1973-8102 ; 0010-9452
    ISSN (online) 1973-8102
    ISSN 0010-9452
    DOI 10.1016/j.cortex.2017.08.019
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  6. Article ; Online: Inefficient prioritization of task-relevant attributes during instrumental information demand

    Isabella Rischall / Laura Hunter / Greg Jensen / Jacqueline Gottlieb

    Nature Communications, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2023  Volume 12

    Abstract: Abstract In natural settings, people evaluate complex multi-attribute situations and decide which attribute to request information about. Little is known about how people make this selection and specifically, how they identify individual observations ... ...

    Abstract Abstract In natural settings, people evaluate complex multi-attribute situations and decide which attribute to request information about. Little is known about how people make this selection and specifically, how they identify individual observations that best predict the value of a multi-attribute situation. Here show that, in a simple task of information demand, participants inefficiently query attributes that have high individual value but are relatively uninformative about a total payoff. This inefficiency is robust in two instrumental conditions in which gathering less informative observations leads to significantly lower rewards. Across individuals, variations in the sensitivity to informativeness is associated with personality metrics, showing negative associations with extraversion and thrill seeking and positive associations with stress tolerance and need for cognition. Thus, people select informative queries using sub-optimal strategies that are associated with personality traits and influence consequential choices.
    Keywords Science ; Q
    Subject code 150
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Nature Portfolio
    Document type Article ; Online
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  7. Article ; Online: Beta traveling waves in monkey frontal and parietal areas encode recent reward history.

    Zabeh, Erfan / Foley, Nicholas C / Jacobs, Joshua / Gottlieb, Jacqueline P

    Nature communications

    2023  Volume 14, Issue 1, Page(s) 5428

    Abstract: Brain function depends on neural communication, but the mechanisms of this communication are not well understood. Recent studies suggest that one form of neural communication is through traveling waves (TWs)-patterns of neural oscillations that propagate ...

    Abstract Brain function depends on neural communication, but the mechanisms of this communication are not well understood. Recent studies suggest that one form of neural communication is through traveling waves (TWs)-patterns of neural oscillations that propagate within and between brain areas. We show that TWs are robust in microarray recordings in frontal and parietal cortex and encode recent reward history. Two adult male monkeys made saccades to obtain probabilistic rewards and were sensitive to the (statistically irrelevant) reward on the previous trial. TWs in frontal and parietal areas were stronger in trials that followed a prior reward versus a lack of reward and, in the frontal lobe, correlated with the monkeys' behavioral sensitivity to the prior reward. The findings suggest that neural communication mediated by TWs within the frontal and parietal lobes contribute to maintaining information about recent reward history and mediating the impact of this history on the monkeys' expectations.
    MeSH term(s) Male ; Animals ; Frontal Lobe ; Parietal Lobe ; Reward ; Saccades ; Travel
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-09-05
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2553671-0
    ISSN 2041-1723 ; 2041-1723
    ISSN (online) 2041-1723
    ISSN 2041-1723
    DOI 10.1038/s41467-023-41125-9
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  8. Article ; Online: Superstitious learning of abstract order from random reinforcement.

    Jin, Yuhao / Jensen, Greg / Gottlieb, Jacqueline / Ferrera, Vincent

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

    2022  Volume 119, Issue 35, Page(s) e2202789119

    Abstract: Humans and other animals often infer spurious associations among unrelated events. However, such superstitious learning is usually accounted for by conditioned associations, raising the question of whether an animal could develop more complex cognitive ... ...

    Abstract Humans and other animals often infer spurious associations among unrelated events. However, such superstitious learning is usually accounted for by conditioned associations, raising the question of whether an animal could develop more complex cognitive structures independent of reinforcement. Here, we tasked monkeys with discovering the serial order of two pictorial sets: a "learnable" set in which the stimuli were implicitly ordered and monkeys were rewarded for choosing the higher-rank stimulus and an "unlearnable" set in which stimuli were unordered and feedback was random regardless of the choice. We replicated prior results that monkeys reliably learned the implicit order of the learnable set. Surprisingly, the monkeys behaved as though some ordering also existed in the unlearnable set, showing consistent choice preference that transferred to novel untrained pairs in this set, even under a preference-discouraging reward schedule that gave rewards more frequently to the stimulus that was selected less often. In simulations, a model-free reinforcement learning algorithm (
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Association Learning ; Conditioning, Classical ; Haplorhini ; Humans ; Reinforcement, Psychology ; Reward ; Superstitions/psychology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-08-23
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
    ZDB-ID 209104-5
    ISSN 1091-6490 ; 0027-8424
    ISSN (online) 1091-6490
    ISSN 0027-8424
    DOI 10.1073/pnas.2202789119
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  9. Article ; Online: Slicing a pie is no piece of cake.

    Gottlieb, Jacqueline

    Nature neuroscience

    2013  Volume 16, Issue 10, Page(s) 1364–1366

    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Cognition/physiology ; Executive Function/physiology ; Male ; Neurons/physiology ; Parietal Lobe/physiology ; Prefrontal Cortex/physiology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2013-09-25
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Comment
    ZDB-ID 1420596-8
    ISSN 1546-1726 ; 1097-6256
    ISSN (online) 1546-1726
    ISSN 1097-6256
    DOI 10.1038/nn.3520
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  10. Article ; Online: A Reinforcement Meta-Learning framework of executive function and information demand.

    Silvetti, Massimo / Lasaponara, Stefano / Daddaoua, Nabil / Horan, Mattias / Gottlieb, Jacqueline

    Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society

    2022  Volume 157, Page(s) 103–113

    Abstract: Gathering information is crucial for maximizing fitness, but requires diverting resources from searching directly for primary rewards to actively exploring the environment. Optimal decision-making thus maximizes information while reducing effort costs, ... ...

    Abstract Gathering information is crucial for maximizing fitness, but requires diverting resources from searching directly for primary rewards to actively exploring the environment. Optimal decision-making thus maximizes information while reducing effort costs, but little is known about the neuro-computational implementation of this tradeoff. We present a Reinforcement Meta-Learning (RML) computational model that solves the trade-off between the value and costs of gathering information. We implement the RML in a biologically plausible architecture that links catecholaminergic neuromodulators, the medial prefrontal cortex and topographically organized visual maps and show that it accounts for neural and behavioral findings on information demand motivated by instrumental incentives and intrinsic utility. Moreover, the utility function used by the RML, encoded by dopamine, is an approximation of variational free energy. Thus, the RML presents a biologically plausible mechanism for coordinating motivational, executive and sensory systems generate visual information gathering policies that minimize free energy.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-10-13
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 740542-x
    ISSN 1879-2782 ; 0893-6080
    ISSN (online) 1879-2782
    ISSN 0893-6080
    DOI 10.1016/j.neunet.2022.10.004
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