## Metadata - Authors: [[Kenji Kobayashia]] [[Ming Hsu]] - Full Title:: Common neural code for reward and information value - Category:: #🗞️Articles - Document Tags:: [[✍️ Ser data-driven no es de guapas]], - URL:: https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/128073447 - Read date:: [[2024-01-07]] ## Highlights > Maximizing the instrumental benefits of information acquisition > instead requires forward-looking simulation of agents’ own actions and outcomes under different possible informational states (“I’ll go hiking if it will be sunny, but read indoors if rainy.”) ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hkj8wraqyk3cbws1w0xy0ewa)) > subjective value of information (SVOI) shares a common neural code with more basic reward value ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hkj9zrshs8ac6j4699rgc0n3)) This is the key insight: we value information as if we were gaining money. > the reward system may represent that informational value in the same way as conventional reward signals; for example, monetary reward ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hkj8z8p3pr643b658x7e2rps)) > neuroscientists have provided evidence that putative noninstrumental motives are represented in dopaminergic reward system in monkeys (16, 20) and humans (8–10, 14, 17–19), as if they shape subjective value function that favors information seeking. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hkj9s8n3pwkbrycw07spn48f)) > our study provides evidence that subjective value > of information (SVOI) consists of (at least) two motives: forward-looking instrumental benefit, consistent with normative economic VOI theories, and anticipatory utility, an example of noninstrumental motives ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hkj9rsdappptbk1nn5t3wbws)) > . Subjects’ information seeking in an economic decision-making task was captured by a model of SVOI, which reflects not only infor- mation’s instrumental benefit but also utility of anticipation it provides. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hm9gtwxg6xh0qfxz9bvhtj2n))