Goal-directed learning in adolescence: neurocognitive development and contextual influences

L Wilbrecht, JY Davidow - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
Adolescence is a time during which we transition to independence, explore new activities
and begin pursuit of major life goals. Goal-directed learning, in which we learn to perform …

The influence of anxiety on exploration: A review of computational modeling studies

KP Chou, RC Wilson, N Mikus, C Lamm, C Mathys - Biological Psychiatry, 2025 - Elsevier
Background Psychotic experiences are thought to emerge from various interrelated patterns
of disrupted belief updating, such as overestimating the reliability of sensory information and …

Informing the treatment of social anxiety disorder with computational and neuroimaging data

A Sohail, L Zhang - Psychoradiology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Social anxiety disorder through the lens of computational psychiatry 12 Current treatments
for mental health disorders often demonstrate limited efficacy, 13 stemming in part from a …

Understanding learning through uncertainty and bias

R Bruckner, HR Heekeren, MR Nassar - Communications Psychology, 2025 - nature.com
Learning allows humans and other animals to make predictions about the environment that
facilitate adaptive behavior. Casting learning as predictive inference can shed light on …

Reliability of gamified reinforcement learning in densely sampled longitudinal assessments

MP Neuser, A Kühnel, F Kräutlein… - PLOS Digital …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Reinforcement learning is a core facet of motivation and alterations have been associated
with various mental disorders. To build better models of individual learning, repeated …