The Mixed Instrumental Controller: Using Value of Information to Combine Habitual Choice and Mental Simulation

Instrumental behavior depends on both goal-directed and habitual mechanisms of choice. Normative views cast these mechanisms in terms of model-free and model-based methods of reinforcement learning, respectively. An influential proposal hypothesizes that model-free and model-based mechanisms coexist...

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Main Authors: Giovanni ePezzulo, Francesco eRigoli, Fabian eChersi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00092/full