Modeling the violation of reward maximization and invariance in reinforcement schedules.

It is often assumed that animals and people adjust their behavior to maximize reward acquisition. In visually cued reinforcement schedules, monkeys make errors in trials that are not immediately rewarded, despite having to repeat error trials. Here we show that error rates are typically smaller in t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Giancarlo La Camera, Barry J Richmond
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-08-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/18688266/?tool=EBI