Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2012 Oct;16(10):485-8. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2012.08.006. Epub 2012 Aug 30.
Recent developments in decision-making research are bringing the topic of planning back to center stage in cognitive science. This renewed interest reopens an old, but still unanswered question: how exactly does planning happen? What are the underlying information processing operations and how are they implemented in the brain? Although a range of interesting possibilities exists, recent work has introduced a potentially transformative new idea, according to which planning is accomplished through probabilistic inference.
决策研究的最新进展将规划这一话题重新带回认知科学的中心舞台。这种重新产生的兴趣提出了一个古老但仍未得到解答的问题：规划究竟是如何发生的？其潜在的信息处理操作是什么，以及它们在大脑中是如何实现的？尽管存在一系列有趣的可能性，但最近的工作提出了一个具有潜在变革性的新想法，即规划是通过概率推理来完成的。
