Figure 6.
Cognitive effort avoidance can be explained as resource allocation with a lookahead. Plots show results from Simulation 1, separated by agent lookahead and intrinsic cost (see also Figure 5). (A) Computed optimal control u over time. The highest level of control is requested by an agent with no lookahead and no intrinsic cost of control. Note that actual performance depends both on requested control and energy availability. (B) Glycogen energy levels HA for each case. Note that agents with no lookahead deplete glycogen much more quickly. (C) Agent performance over time. As expected, agents with a longer lookahead and lower intrinsic costs exhibit better overall performance while generally exercising less control (less neuromodulation).