Mengting Fang

🎯New preprint! The resource-rational dynamics of evidence accumulation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Evidence accumulation isn’t stationary. It is dynamically controlled to trade off information gain against cognitive effort. With Jiang Mao, Tobias Donner @donnerlab.bsky.social, Alan Stocker

(5/5) Our model is general given its information-theoretic formulation, and thus should be directly applicable to other tasks involving evidence encoding and maintenance.

🎯New preprint! The resource-rational dynamics of evidence accumulation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Evidence accumulation isn’t stationary. It is dynamically controlled to trade off information gain against cognitive effort. With Jiang Mao, Tobias Donner @donnerlab.bsky.social, Alan Stocker

(3/5) Instead, our results show that evidence accumulation is actively controlled and resource-rational, with dynamics consistent with a computational strategy that continuously balances the informational benefits of incoming evidence against the cognitive costs of acquiring and maintaining it.

🎯New preprint! The resource-rational dynamics of evidence accumulation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Evidence accumulation isn’t stationary. It is dynamically controlled to trade off information gain against cognitive effort. With Jiang Mao, Tobias Donner @donnerlab.bsky.social, Alan Stocker

(1/5) Evidence accumulation is central to decision-making and has been studied extensively across the behavioral and brain sciences. Yet, despite its importance, how the precise temporal structure of evidence shapes the accumulation process has never been systematically investigated.