Department of Psychology, University of Basel, Missionsstrasse 62A, 4055, Basel, Switzerland.
School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia; Department of Psychology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2024 Sep;28(9):857-870. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2024.07.004. Epub 2024 Aug 12.
While decision theories have evolved over the past five decades, their focus has largely been on choices among a limited number of discrete options, even though many real-world situations have a continuous-option space. Recently, theories have attempted to address decisions with continuous-option spaces, and several computational models have been proposed within the sequential sampling framework to explain how we make a decision in continuous-option space. This article aims to review the main attempts to understand decisions on continuous-option spaces, give an overview of applications of these types of decisions, and present puzzles to be addressed by future developments.
虽然决策理论在过去五十年中不断发展,但它们的重点主要集中在有限数量的离散选项之间的选择上,尽管许多现实情况都具有连续选项空间。最近,理论已经尝试解决具有连续选项空间的决策问题,并且在序列采样框架内提出了几个计算模型,以解释我们如何在连续选项空间中做出决策。本文旨在回顾理解连续选项空间决策的主要尝试,概述这些类型决策的应用,并提出未来发展需要解决的难题。