@article{TEXTUAL,
      recid = {5411},
      author = {Barack, David L. and Bakkour, Akram and Shohamy, Daphna  and Salzman, C. Daniel},
      title = {Visuospatial information foraging describes search  behavior in learning latent environmental features},
      journal = {Scientific Reports},
      address = {2023-01-20},
      number = {TEXTUAL},
      abstract = {In the real world, making sequences of decisions to  achieve goals often depends upon the ability to learn  aspects of the environment that are not directly  perceptible. Learning these so-called latent features  requires seeking information about them. Prior efforts to  study latent feature learning often used single decisions,  used few features, and failed to distinguish between  reward-seeking and information-seeking. To overcome this,  we designed a task in which humans and monkeys made a  series of choices to search for shapes hidden on a grid. On  our task, the effects of reward and information outcomes  from uncovering parts of shapes could be disentangled.  Members of both species adeptly learned the shapes and  preferred to select tiles expected to be informative  earlier in trials than previously rewarding ones, searching  a part of the grid until their outcomes dropped below the  average information outcome—a pattern consistent with  foraging behavior. In addition, how quickly humans learned  the shapes was predicted by how well their choice sequences  matched the foraging pattern, revealing an unexpected  connection between foraging and learning. This adaptive  search for information may underlie the ability in humans  and monkeys to learn latent features to support  goal-directed behavior in the long run.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/5411},
}