The Neuroscience and Psychophysiology of Experience-Based Decisions: An Introduction to the Research Topic

[摘要] Experience-based decisions can be defined as decisions emanating from direct or vicarious reinforcements that were received in the past. For example, in a typical setting a person initially faces blank buttons and needs to press any of them without prior information concerning the selection outcomes. Upon pressing a button the participant receives monetary outcomes (e.g., “you won $5”) and then, based on this experience, makes another selection. Quite often hundreds of trials of this sort are administered. The outcomes of the two alternatives are usually sampled from different payoff distributions (e.g., a button producing a fixed payoff of $5 could be contrasted with a button producing risky payoff, such as wining $9 or $1 with equal likelihood). This allows examining the decision response to different incentive structures without explicit information concerning their statistical properties.

[学科分类] 心理学（综合）