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SUBMITTER: Chen WJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5422778 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chen Wei James WJ Krajbich Ian I
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20170417 18
Models of reinforcement learning (RL) are prevalent in the decision-making literature, but not all behavior seems to conform to the gradual convergence that is a central feature of RL. In some cases learning seems to happen all at once. Limited prior research on these "epiphanies" has shown evidence of sudden changes in behavior, but it remains unclear how such epiphanies occur. We propose a sequential-sampling model of epiphany learning (EL) and test it using an eye-tracking experiment. In the ...[more]