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SUBMITTER: Walsh MM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3223452 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Walsh Matthew M MM Anderson John R JR
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20111107 47
A great deal of research focuses on how humans and animals learn from trial-and-error interactions with the environment. This research has established the viability of reinforcement learning as a model of behavioral adaptation and neural reward valuation. Error-driven learning is inefficient and dangerous, however. Fortunately, humans learn from nonexperiential sources of information as well. In the present study, we focused on one such form of information, instruction. We recorded event-related ...[more]