Actions, action sequences and habits: evidence that goal-directed and habitual action control are hierarchically organized.

Behavioral evidence suggests that instrumental conditioning is governed by two forms of action control: a goal-directed and a habit learning process. Model-based reinforcement learning (RL) has been argued to underlie the goal-directed process; however, the way in which it interacts with habits and...

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Main Authors: Amir Dezfouli, Bernard W Balleine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3854489?pdf=render