Palminteri Lab

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ERC Consolidator Grant · 2021

Range-adapting reinforcement learning and memory

A wealth of evidence in perceptual and economic decision-making research suggests that the subjective value of one option is determined by the range of the values of other available options (i.e., the context). Yet, up until today, this literature has almost exclusively focused on decision situations where contexts are explicit and static, thus ignoring more ecological and realistic scenarios where value ranges are dynamically shaped by past outcomes. This proposal will investigate if and how range adaptation also affects the computation of outcome values that are acquired from experience and stored in memory. We hypothesize that range-adaptation is pervasive in learning, because it…

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