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A Primer on Foraging and the Explore/Exploit Trade-Off for Psychiatry Research

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The explore/exploit trade-off has been studied extensively in behavioral ecology and computational neuroscience, but is relatively new to the field of psychiatry as discussed by the authors, which can offer psychiatry research a new approach to studying motivation, outcome valuation, and effort-related processes which are disrupted in many mental and emotional disorders.
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This article is published in Neuropsychopharmacology.The article was published on 2017-05-29 and is currently open access. It has received 102 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Foraging.

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Foraging for foundations in decision neuroscience: insights from ethology

TL;DR: It is argued that more should be done to combine the approaches taken in neuroscience with those taken in ethology and behavioural ecology to study decision-making, and illustrated how this has been achieved in the context of studies on foraging.
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Subcortical Substrates of Explore-Exploit Decisions in Primates.

TL;DR: In this article, the explore-exploit dilemma refers to the challenge of deciding when to forego immediate rewards and explore new opportunities that could lead to greater rewards in the future.
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Dopaminergic modulation of the exploration/exploitation trade-off in human decision-making

TL;DR: It is suggested that dopamine modulates how this circuit tracks accumulating uncertainty during decision-making by attenuating neural representations of overall uncertainty in insula and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex.
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A step-by-step tutorial on active inference and its application to empirical data

TL;DR: In this article , a step-by-step tutorial on how to build POMDPs, run simulations using standard MATLAB routines, and fit these models to empirical data is presented.
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Cortical substrates for exploratory decisions in humans

TL;DR: It is shown, in a gambling task, that human subjects' choices can be characterized by a computationally well-regarded strategy for addressing the explore/exploit dilemma, and a model of action selection under uncertainty that involves switching between exploratory and exploitative behavioural modes is suggested.
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What is the association between foraging behavior and mental health?

The paper discusses how the explore/exploit trade-off, a common foraging problem, can offer a new approach to studying motivation, outcome valuation, and effort-related processes in mental and emotional disorders. However, it does not specifically mention the association between foraging behavior and mental health.