Fig. 3.

Simplified visual depiction of relevant dependencies in the computational (generative) model of the approach-avoidance conflict task. Beliefs about trial type and beliefs about runway positions were generated by (and inferred based on) trial-type cues and runway-position cues, respectively. Observed outcome stimuli were probabilistically generated by an interaction between trial type and runway position. Beliefs about this interaction were used to infer the action (state transition) most likely to produce the most preferred outcome stimuli. Trial types: AV = avoid; APP = approach; CONF2, CONF4 and CONF6 = conflict + 2, 4 or 6 points, respectively.