title: Planning as inference.
abstract: Recent developments in decision-making research are bringing the topic of planning back to center stage in cognitive science. This renewed interest reopens an old, but still unanswered question: how exactly does planning happen? What are the underlying information processing operations and how are they implemented in the brain? Although a range of interesting possibilities exists, recent work has introduced a potentially transformative new idea, according to which planning is accomplished through probabilistic inference.
authors.affiliation: Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. matthewb@princeton.edu
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Botvinick
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Toussaint
mesh_terms: D003210:Concept Formation; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D008606:Mental Processes; D011337:Probability Learning