Ten simple rules for the computational modeling of behavioral data

RC Wilson, AGE Collins - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Computational modeling of behavior has revolutionized psychology and neuroscience. By
fitting models to experimental data we can probe the algorithms underlying behavior, find …

Neuronal reward and decision signals: from theories to data

W Schultz - Physiological reviews, 2015 - journals.physiology.org
Rewards are crucial objects that induce learning, approach behavior, choices, and
emotions. Whereas emotions are difficult to investigate in animals, the learning function is …

Prefrontal cortex as a meta-reinforcement learning system

JX Wang, Z Kurth-Nelson, D Kumaran, D Tirumala… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Over the past 20 years, neuroscience research on reward-based learning has converged on
a canonical model, under which the neurotransmitter dopamine 'stamps in'associations …

Multiple routes to enhanced memory for emotionally relevant events

N Rouhani, Y Niv, MJ Frank, L Schwabe - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Events associated with aversive or rewarding outcomes are prioritized in memory. This
memory boost is commonly attributed to the elicited affective response, closely linked to …

Resolving uncertainty in a social world

O FeldmanHall, A Shenhav - Nature human behaviour, 2019 - nature.com
Consider the range of social behaviours we engage in every day. In each case, there are a
multitude of unknowns, reflecting the many sources of uncertainty inherent to social …

Eligibility traces and plasticity on behavioral time scales: experimental support of neohebbian three-factor learning rules

W Gerstner, M Lehmann, V Liakoni… - Frontiers in neural …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Most elementary behaviors such as moving the arm to grasp an object or walking into the
next room to explore a museum evolve on the time scale of seconds; in contrast, neuronal …

Adolescent risk-taking in the context of exploration and social influence

S Ciranka, W van den Bos - Developmental Review, 2021 - Elsevier
Adolescents are often described as a strange and different species that behaves like no
other age group, typical behaviours being excessive risk-taking and sensitivity to peer …

Adaptive learning under expected and unexpected uncertainty

A Soltani, A Izquierdo - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2019 - nature.com
The outcome of a decision is often uncertain, and outcomes can vary over repeated
decisions. Whether decision outcomes should substantially affect behaviour and learning …

Uncertainty in perception and the Hierarchical Gaussian Filter

CD Mathys, EI Lomakina, J Daunizeau… - Frontiers in human …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
In its full sense, perception rests on an agent's model of how its sensory input comes about
and the inferences it draws based on this model. These inferences are necessarily …

Reasoning, learning, and creativity: frontal lobe function and human decision-making

A Collins, E Koechlin - PLoS biology, 2012 - journals.plos.org
The frontal lobes subserve decision-making and executive control—that is, the selection and
coordination of goal-directed behaviors. Current models of frontal executive function …