Spontaneous thought transitions follow a foraging-like policy on high-order memory patches

When people engage in spontaneous thought under low external constraint, thought content changes continuously and can shift across topics. However, the cognitive computational principles governing these transitions remain unclear, as does whether similar dynamics emerge in artificial language generation. Here, we formalized spontaneous narrative dynamics using a foraging-inspired framework,…

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