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SUBMITTER: Tartaglia EM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5339299 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tartaglia Elisa M EM Clarke Aaron M AM Herzog Michael H MH
Frontiers in psychology 20170307
Many of the decisions we make in our everyday lives are sequential and entail sparse rewards. While sequential decision-making has been extensively investigated in theory (e.g., by reinforcement learning models) there is no systematic experimental paradigm to test it. Here, we developed such a paradigm and investigated key components of reinforcement learning models: the eligibility trace (i.e., the memory trace of previous decision steps), the external reward, and the ability to exploit the sta ...[more]