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SUBMITTER: Konovalov A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4987535 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Konovalov Arkady A Krajbich Ian I
Nature communications 20160811
Organisms appear to learn and make decisions using different strategies known as model-free and model-based learning; the former is mere reinforcement of previously rewarded actions and the latter is a forward-looking strategy that involves evaluation of action-state transition probabilities. Prior work has used neural data to argue that both model-based and model-free learners implement a value comparison process at trial onset, but model-based learners assign more weight to forward-looking com ...[more]