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A closer look at choice

Nature Neuroscience volume 13, pages 1153–1154 (2010)Cite this article

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We often look back and forth between options before deciding which one to choose, even if we have seen them both before. A new study suggests that people are biased to choose things they look at more, providing new insight into how the subjective values of options are constructed.

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Figure 1: Choice by diffusion.

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  2. Nathaniel D. Daw is also at the Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, New York, USA.,

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