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SUBMITTER: Collette S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5662289 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Collette Sven S Pauli Wolfgang M WM Bossaerts Peter P O'Doherty John J
eLife 20171030
In inverse reinforcement learning an observer infers the reward distribution available for actions in the environment solely through observing the actions implemented by another agent. To address whether this computational process is implemented in the human brain, participants underwent fMRI while learning about slot machines yielding hidden preferred and non-preferred food outcomes with varying probabilities, through observing the repeated slot choices of agents with similar and dissimilar foo ...[more]