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Decision amid uncertainty

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Choosing whether to stick to a belief or to abandon it in the face of uncertainty is central to human behaviour. Modelling implicates brain chemicals called neuromodulators in adjudicating this essential decision.

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  1. Department of Psychology and the Center for the Study of Brain, Mind and Behavior, Green Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, 08544-1010, New Jersey, USA

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  2. Department of Psychiatry, Laboratory of Neuromodulation and Behavior, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 705 Stellar Chance, Philadelphia, 19104-6100, Pennsylvania, USA

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Cohen, J., Aston-Jones, G. Decision amid uncertainty. Nature 436, 471–472 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/436471a

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