The computational relationship between reinforcement learning, social inference, and paranoia.

Theoretical accounts suggest heightened uncertainty about the state of the world underpin aberrant belief updates, which in turn increase the risk of developing a persecutory delusion. However, this raises the question as to how an agent's uncertainty may relate to the precise phenomenology of...

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Main Authors: Joseph M Barnby, Mitul A Mehta, Michael Moutoussis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-07-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010326