Consciousness meets neuroeconomics: what is the value of stimulus awareness in decision making?
An important question in neuroeconomics is how consciousness affects decision making. In this issue of Neuron, Pessiglione et al. take an initial step toward addressing this question by showing that humans learn to make optimal choices in the absence of explicit knowledge about key parameters of the decision-making problem.
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HSS and CNS, California Institute of Technology, MC 228-77, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. rangel@hss.caltech.edu