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SUBMITTER: Diederen KM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4893165 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Diederen Kelly M J KM Spencer Tom T Vestergaard Martin D MD Fletcher Paul C PC Schultz Wolfram W
Neuron 20160512 5
Effective error-driven learning benefits from scaling of prediction errors to reward variability. Such behavioral adaptation may be facilitated by neurons coding prediction errors relative to the standard deviation (SD) of reward distributions. To investigate this hypothesis, we required participants to predict the magnitude of upcoming reward drawn from distributions with different SDs. After each prediction, participants received a reward, yielding trial-by-trial prediction errors. In line wit ...[more]