TY - GEN
T1 - Decisions to intervene on causal systems are adaptively selected
AU - Coenen, Anna
AU - Rehder, Bob
AU - Gureckis, Todd
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments. This work was supported by grant number BCS-1255538 from the National Science Foundation and the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) via Department of the Interior (DOI) contract D10PC20023 to TMG.
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© 2014 Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014. All rights reserved.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - How do people choose interventions to learn about a causal system? Here, we tested two possibilities: an optimal information sampling strategy which aims to discriminate between multiple hypotheses, and a second strategy that aims to confirm individual hypotheses. We show in Experiment 1 that individual behavior is best fit using a mixture of these two options. In a second experiment, we find that people are able to adaptively alter the strategies they use in response to their expected payoff in a particular task environment.
AB - How do people choose interventions to learn about a causal system? Here, we tested two possibilities: an optimal information sampling strategy which aims to discriminate between multiple hypotheses, and a second strategy that aims to confirm individual hypotheses. We show in Experiment 1 that individual behavior is best fit using a mixture of these two options. In a second experiment, we find that people are able to adaptively alter the strategies they use in response to their expected payoff in a particular task environment.
KW - causal learning
KW - information sampling
KW - interventions
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85118318069
T3 - Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014
SP - 343
EP - 348
BT - Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014
PB - The Cognitive Science Society
T2 - 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014
Y2 - 23 July 2014 through 26 July 2014
ER -