3 papers
q-bio.NC2025
Structuring the Environment Nudges Participants Toward Hierarchical Over Shortest Path Planning
Valeria Simonelli, Davide Nuzzi, Gian Luca Lancia +1
Effective planning is crucial for navigating complex environments and achieving goals efficiently. In this study, we investigated how environmental structure influences the selecti…
q-bio.NC2025
Human foraging strategies flexibly adapt to resource distribution and time constraints
Valeria Simonelli, Davide Nuzzi, Gian Luca Lancia +1
Foraging is a crucial activity, yet the extent to which humans employ flexible versus rigid strategies remains unclear. This study investigates how individuals adapt their foraging…
q-bio.NC2025
The geometry of efficient codes: how rate-distortion trade-offs distort the latent representations of generative models
Leo D'Amato, Gian Luca Lancia, Giovanni Pezzulo
Living organisms rely on internal models of the world to act adaptively. These models, because of resource limitations, cannot encode every detail and hence need to compress inform…