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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2023 Feb 17;147:105103. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105103

Figure 3.

Figure 3.

Modified representation of the Generative Model for the Approach-Avoidance Conflict (AAC) Task from Smith et al. (2021a, 2021b). Participants use available (observable) information to generate beliefs about current states to inform their choices (actions). In the AAC task, observations include task stimuli (runway position cues and trial type cues) and the outcome stimuli (points, aversive stimuli). Beliefs are generated from the likelihood of observing the runway position cue given a particular runway position, stateP: p(o|sP), the likelihood of observing a trial cue given a particular trial type, stateT: p(o|sT), and the likelihood of observing the outcome stimuli given the interaction between a particular position and trial type: p(o|sP,sT).