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Even after learning the right idea, humans and animals still seem to test other approaches, study suggests

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Even after learning the right idea, humans and animals still seem to test other approaches, study suggests New research adds evidence that learning a successful strategy for approaching a task doesn't prevent further exploration, even if it reduces performance.

The behavior of "exploring" when one could just be "exploiting," could make sense for at least two reasons.

The Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative supported the research through the Simons Center for the Social Brain at MIT .

In addition to Dragoi and Sur , other authors of the paper are Hiroki Sugihara , Nhat Le , Elie Adam , Jitendra Sharma , Guoping Feng and Robert Desimone .

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