A bias toward the unknown: individual and environmental factors influencing exploratory behavior
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- Zeitschriftenaufsatz
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- Autoren
- Tara M Petzke
- Judith Schomaker
- Autoren-URL
- https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=fis-test-1&SrcAuth=WosAPI&KeyUT=WOS:000761130000001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL
- DOI
- 10.1111/nyas.14757
- eISSN
- 1749-6632
- Externe Identifier
- Clarivate Analytics Document Solution ID: 2E9KW
- PubMed Identifier: 35218049
- ISSN
- 0077-8923
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 1
- Zeitschrift
- ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
- Schlüsselwörter
- novelty
- exploration
- food choices
- value
- surprise
- decision making
- Paginierung
- 61 - 75
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2022
- Status
- Published
- Titel
- A bias toward the unknown: individual and environmental factors influencing exploratory behavior
- Sub types
- Article
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 1512
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- Abstract
- <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>With limited resources, exploring new opportunities is crucial for survival. Exploring novel options, however, comes at the cost of uncertainty. Therefore, there is a trade‐off between exploiting options with a known beneficial outcome and exploring novel options with a potentially higher gain. Computational models have suggested that novelty may promote exploratory behavior by inducing a so‐called <jats:italic>novelty bonus</jats:italic> through reward‐related processes. So far, few studies have provided behavioral evidence for such a novelty bonus. In this study, we aimed to investigate whether <jats:italic>spatial novelty</jats:italic> can stimulate exploratory behavior (Experiment 1), and whether age, novelty‐seeking, and reduced action radius or social interactions due to COVID‐19 restrictions influenced the exploration–exploitation trade‐off (Experiment 2). In both experiments, we employed a novel paradigm in which participants made binary decisions between food items, while on rare trials, a surprise option was presented. Results from Experiment 1 are in line with a novelty bonus, with spatial novelty promoting exploratory behavior. In Experiment 2, we found that exploratory behavior declined with age, high novelty seekers made more exploratory choices than low novelty seekers, and participants with a smaller action radius made fewer exploratory choices. These findings are consistent with previous findings in animals and predictions from computational models.</jats:p>
- Autoren
- Tara M Petzke
- Judith Schomaker
- DOI
- 10.1111/nyas.14757
- eISSN
- 1749-6632
- ISSN
- 0077-8923
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 1
- Zeitschrift
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- Sprache
- en
- Online publication date
- 2022
- Paginierung
- 61 - 75
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2022
- Status
- Published
- Herausgeber
- Wiley
- Herausgeber URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14757
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2023
- Titel
- A bias toward the unknown: individual and environmental factors influencing exploratory behavior
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 1512
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- Abstract
- With limited resources, exploring new opportunities is crucial for survival. Exploring novel options, however, comes at the cost of uncertainty. Therefore, there is a trade-off between exploiting options with a known beneficial outcome and exploring novel options with a potentially higher gain. Computational models have suggested that novelty may promote exploratory behavior by inducing a so-called novelty bonus through reward-related processes. So far, few studies have provided behavioral evidence for such a novelty bonus. In this study, we aimed to investigate whether spatial novelty can stimulate exploratory behavior (Experiment 1), and whether age, novelty-seeking, and reduced action radius or social interactions due to COVID-19 restrictions influenced the exploration-exploitation trade-off (Experiment 2). In both experiments, we employed a novel paradigm in which participants made binary decisions between food items, while on rare trials, a surprise option was presented. Results from Experiment 1 are in line with a novelty bonus, with spatial novelty promoting exploratory behavior. In Experiment 2, we found that exploratory behavior declined with age, high novelty seekers made more exploratory choices than low novelty seekers, and participants with a smaller action radius made fewer exploratory choices. These findings are consistent with previous findings in animals and predictions from computational models.
- Addresses
- Department of Health, Medical & Neuropsychology, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands.
- Autoren
- Tara M Petzke
- Judith Schomaker
- DOI
- 10.1111/nyas.14757
- eISSN
- 1749-6632
- Externe Identifier
- PubMed Identifier: 35218049
- PubMed Central ID: PMC9306615
- Open access
- true
- ISSN
- 0077-8923
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 1
- Zeitschrift
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- Schlüsselwörter
- Animals
- Humans
- Uncertainty
- Exploratory Behavior
- Reward
- Bias
- COVID-19
- Sprache
- eng
- Medium
- Print-Electronic
- Online publication date
- 2022
- Open access status
- Open Access
- Paginierung
- 61 - 75
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2022
- Status
- Published
- Publisher licence
- CC BY-NC
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2022
- Titel
- A bias toward the unknown: individual and environmental factors influencing exploratory behavior.
- Sub types
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
- research-article
- Journal Article
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 1512
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- Abstract
- With limited resources, exploring new opportunities is crucial for survival. Exploring novel options, however, comes at the cost of uncertainty. Therefore, there is a trade-off between exploiting options with a known beneficial outcome and exploring novel options with a potentially higher gain. Computational models have suggested that novelty may promote exploratory behavior by inducing a so-called novelty bonus through reward-related processes. So far, few studies have provided behavioral evidence for such a novelty bonus. In this study, we aimed to investigate whether spatial novelty can stimulate exploratory behavior (Experiment 1), and whether age, novelty-seeking, and reduced action radius or social interactions due to COVID-19 restrictions influenced the exploration-exploitation trade-off (Experiment 2). In both experiments, we employed a novel paradigm in which participants made binary decisions between food items, while on rare trials, a surprise option was presented. Results from Experiment 1 are in line with a novelty bonus, with spatial novelty promoting exploratory behavior. In Experiment 2, we found that exploratory behavior declined with age, high novelty seekers made more exploratory choices than low novelty seekers, and participants with a smaller action radius made fewer exploratory choices. These findings are consistent with previous findings in animals and predictions from computational models.
- Date of acceptance
- 2022
- Autoren
- Tara M Petzke
- Judith Schomaker
- Autoren-URL
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35218049
- DOI
- 10.1111/nyas.14757
- eISSN
- 1749-6632
- Externe Identifier
- PubMed Central ID: PMC9306615
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 1
- Zeitschrift
- Ann N Y Acad Sci
- Schlüsselwörter
- decision making
- exploration
- food choices
- novelty
- surprise
- value
- Animals
- Bias
- COVID-19
- Exploratory Behavior
- Humans
- Reward
- Uncertainty
- Sprache
- eng
- Country
- United States
- Paginierung
- 61 - 75
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2022
- Status
- Published
- Datum, an dem der Datensatz öffentlich gemacht wurde
- 2022
- Titel
- A bias toward the unknown: individual and environmental factors influencing exploratory behavior.
- Sub types
- Journal Article
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 1512
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