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When learning to achieve a goal through a complex series of actions, humans often group several actions into a subroutine and evaluate whether the subroutine achieved a specific subgoal. A new study reports brain responses consistent with such "hierarchical reinforcement learning."

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Behrens, T, Jocham, G
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2011