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In the News: Even after learning the right idea, humans and animals still seem to test other approaches, study suggests
Maybe it’s a life hack or a liability, or a little of both. A surprising result in a new MIT study may suggest that people and animals alike share an inherent propensity to keep updating their approach to a task even when they have
already learned how they should approach it and even if the deviations sometimes lead to unnecessary error.
The behavior of “exploring” when one could just be “exploiting,” could make sense for at least two reasons, said Mriganka Sur, senior author of the study published Feb. 18 in Current Biology.