About the Authors

Charlene C. Wu

charlene.wu@stanford.edu

Affiliation Psychology and Neuroscience, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Peter Bossaerts

Affiliation Computation and Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Brian Knutson

Affiliation Psychology and Neuroscience, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CCW PB BK. Performed the experiments: CCW. Analyzed the data: CCW BK. Wrote the paper: CCW PB BK.