The influence of attention and reward on the learning of stimulus-response associations

Abstract We can learn new tasks by listening to a teacher, but we can also learn by trial-and-error. Here, we investigate the factors that determine how participants learn new stimulus-response mappings by trial-and-error. Does learning in human observers comply with reinforcement learning theories,...

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Main Authors: Devavrat Vartak, Danique Jeurissen, Matthew W. Self, Pieter R. Roelfsema
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-08-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08200-w