Abstract:In many situations encountered in our daily lives where we have several options to choose from, we need to balance the amount of planning into the future with the number of alternatives we want to consider to achieve our long-term goals. A popular way to study these planning problems in controlled environments is maze-solving tasks, since they can be precisely defined and controlled in terms of their topology. In our study, participants solved mazes that differed systematically in topological properties regula… Show more
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.