(Press-News.org) Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011087
Article Title: Humans decompose tasks by trading off utility and computational cost
Author Countries: USA
Funding: This research was supported by John Templeton Foundation grant 61454 awarded to TLG and NDD (https://www.templeton.org/), U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant FA 9550-18-1-0077 awarded to TLG (https://www.afrl.af.mil/AFOSR/), and U.S. Army Research Office grant ARO W911NF-16-1-0474 awarded to NDD (https://www.arl.army.mil/who-we-are/directorates/aro/). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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People divide complex tasks into simpler subtasks in a way that balances ease of planning with efficient behavior, consistent with a new computational theory
2023-06-01
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