A Unifying Probabilistic View of Associative Learning.

Two important ideas about associative learning have emerged in recent decades: (1) Animals are Bayesian learners, tracking their uncertainty about associations; and (2) animals acquire long-term reward predictions through reinforcement learning. Both of these ideas are normative, in the sense that t...

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Main Author: Samuel J Gershman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-11-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4633133?pdf=render