Surprise Acts as a Reducer of Outcome Value in Human Reinforcement Learning

Surprise occurs because of differences between a decision outcome and its predicted outcome (prediction error), regardless of whether the error is positive or negative. It has recently been postulated that surprise affects the reward value of the action outcome; studies have indicated that increasin...

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Main Authors: Motofumi Sumiya, Kentaro Katahira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroscience
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnins.2020.00852/full