The exploration advantage in semantic search is interpreted as context-dependent, potentially beneficial in sparsely distributed target environments¶

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q1 i? The authors argue the same exploration bias may help or hinder performance depending on the search environment's target distribution. → Van den Driessche 2019

Evidence¶

Van den Driessche 2019¶

Van den Driessche, C., Chevrier, F., Cleeremans, A. & Sackur, J. (2019). Lower Attentional Skills predict increased exploratory foraging patterns. Scientific Reports 9:10948. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-46761-0

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Authors' interpretation (type e) from the Discussion: the visual task had uniformly distributed targets while semantic targets are "plausibly more sparsely and unevenly distributed", which they speculate resembles natural foraging. This is a stated interpretation, not a tested manipulation.

"the same exploration bias may have differential impacts on performances depending on search domains, and could even become beneficial as in our semantic task."

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