Unconscious reinforcement learning of hidden brain states supported by confidence

Humans can unconsciously learn to gamble on rewarding options, but can they do so when it comes to their own mental states? Here, the authors show that participants can learn to use unconscious representations in their own brains to earn rewards, and that metacognition correlates with their learning...

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Main Authors: Aurelio Cortese, Hakwan Lau, Mitsuo Kawato
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17828-8