Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Learning relative values in the striatum induces violations of normative decision making

  • Tilmann A. Klein,
  • Markus Ullsperger,
  • Gerhard Jocham

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms16033
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Though people learn that certain choices may be more advantageous, they often do not choose this option. Here, the authors explain this behaviour: people learn how good a choice is relative to the choices it has been associated with previously, and this learning takes place in the striatum.