A task-invariant prior explains trial-by-trial active avoidance behaviour across gain and loss tasks

Abstract Failing to make decisions that would actively avoid negative outcomes is central to helplessness. In a Bayesian framework, deciding whether to act is informed by beliefs about the world that can be characterised as priors. However, these priors have not been previously quantified. Here we a...

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Main Authors: Tobias Granwald, Peter Dayan, Máté Lengyel, Marc Guitart-Masip
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-05-01
Series:Communications Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-025-00254-1
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