Reinforcement learning in and out of context: The effects of attentional focus

Autor: William M. Hayes, Douglas H. Wedell
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition.
ISSN: 1939-1285
Popis: In reinforcement learning (RL) tasks, decision makers learn the values of actions in a context-dependent fashion. Although context dependence has many advantages, it can lead to suboptimal preferences when choice options are extrapolated beyond their original encoding contexts. Here, we tested whether we could manipulate context dependence in RL by introducing a secondary task designed to bias attention toward either absolute or relative outcomes. Participants completed a learning phase that involved choices between two (Experiment 1
Databáze: OpenAIRE