人类适应性延迟计划

Planning is an expensive computational operation that easily exhausts our cognitive resources. For this reason, it is critical to learn strategies to initiate planning wisely. To understand how humans adaptively initiate planning, we developed a task where humans can learn to delay planning at certain timepoints when all actions are equally likely to reach an instructed goal. Across two pre-registered studies, we show that humans adaptively delay planning, and improve in their ability to do so with experience. To explain this behavior, we formalize a model of the underlying meta-control comput