Integrating information and reward into subjective value: humans, monkeys, and the lateral habenula
Ethan Bromberg-Martin,Yang-Yang Feng,Takaya Ogasawara,J. Kael White,Kaining Zhang,Ilya Monosov · COSYNE 2022
Humans and several animal species, including monkeys, rats, and pigeons, are often strongly motivated to seek information about uncertain future rewards. Remarkably, they prefer information even when it has no objective value for controlling the outcome, suggesting that information has subjective value of its own. In recent years there has been an explosion of research on information seeking in humans and animal models. However, a critical unanswered question is whether the computations that assign subjective value to information are conserved between humans and other species. If so, we could
ePoster · Neuroscience