Integration of social cues and individual experiences during instrumental avoidance learning.

Learning to avoid harmful consequences can be a costly trial-and-error process. In such situations, social information can be leveraged to improve individual learning outcomes. Here, we investigated how participants used their own experiences and others' social cues to avoid harm. Participants...

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Main Authors: Philip Pärnamets, Andreas Olsson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-09-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008163