Fig. 1: The Restaurant Row and Web-Surf tasks. | Communications Biology

Fig. 1: The Restaurant Row and Web-Surf tasks.

From: Sunk cost sensitivity during change-of-mind decisions is informed by both the spent and remaining costs

Fig. 1

a The Restaurant Row task for mice and rats. As the animal enters the offer zone, the delay is indicated by a tone, which only starts counting down on entering the wait zone. Animals encounter restaurants serially by proceeding around the cycle counterclockwise. b The Web-Surf task for humans. An offer is provided to the human as a download bar with a set delay, but the download does not start to countdown until they select “enter” to enter the wait zone. Humans encounter the video galleries serially by clicking through a sequence of buttons. Note the topological analogies. Figure reprinted from19 with permission of the publisher.

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