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Xu He

École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneORCID 0000-0002-7129-8006Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:human· 2 Approach:deep learning· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1

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Even if suboptimal, novelty drives human exploration

Alireza Modirshanechi, Wei-Hsiang Lin, Xu He, Michael H. Herzog, Wulfram Gerstner

This study shows humans persistently explore stochastic environments despite suboptimal strategies, driven by novelty rather than optimal information gain.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Sep 25, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Novelty is not Surprise: Human exploratory and adaptive behavior in sequential decision-making

Xu He, Alireza Modirshanechi, Marco P. Lehmann, Wulfram Gerstner, Michael H. Herzog

This study introduces a deep sequential decision-making paradigm to explain human behavior by incorporating novelty and surprise, showing that model-free actions dominate decisions despite the availability of a world-model.

PLoS Computational Biology · Jun 3, 2021Peer-reviewedNeuroscience