Using deep neural networks as a guide for modeling human planning

I Kuperwajs, HH Schütt, WJ Ma - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
When develo** models in cognitive science, researchers typically start with their own
intuitions about human behavior in a given task and then build in mechanisms that explain …

Humans adaptively select different computational strategies in different learning environments.

P Verbeke, T Verguts - Psychological Review, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract The Rescorla–Wagner rule remains the most popular tool to describe human
behavior in reinforcement learning tasks. Nevertheless, it cannot fit human learning in …

Active reinforcement learning versus action bias and hysteresis: control with a mixture of experts and nonexperts

JT Colas, JP O'Doherty, ST Grafton - PLOS Computational Biology, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Active reinforcement learning enables dynamic prediction and control, where one should not
only maximize rewards but also minimize costs such as of inference, decisions, actions, and …

Dynamic reinforcement learning reveals time-dependent shifts in strategy during reward learning

SJC Venditto, KJ Miller, CD Brody, ND Daw - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Different brain systems have been hypothesized to subserve multiple “experts” that compete
to generate behavior. In reinforcement learning, two general processes, one model-free …

Computational and systems neuroscience: The next 20 years

C Summerfield, K Miller - PLoS Biology, 2023 - journals.plos.org
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Computational discovery of human reinforcement learning dynamics from choice behavior

D Weinhardt, MK Eckstein, S Musslick - NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on …, 2024 - openreview.net
This paper presents a novel machine learning approach for inferring interpretable human
reinforcement learning models from behavioral data. By combining recurrent neural …

Dorsal prefrontal cortex drives perseverative behavior in mice

A Lebedeva, Y Wang, L Funnell, B Terry, YJ Oh… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Perseveration–repeating one choice when others would generate larger rewards–is a
common behavior, but neither its purpose nor neuronal mechanisms are understood. Here …

Latent Variable Sequence Identification for Cognitive Models with Neural Bayes Estimation

TF Pan, JJ Li, B Thompson, A Collins - arxiv preprint arxiv:2406.14742, 2024 - arxiv.org
Extracting time-varying latent variables from computational cognitive models is a key step in
model-based neural analysis, which aims to understand the neural correlates of cognitive …

[PDF][PDF] Excessive flexibility? Recurrent neural networks can ac-commodate individual differences in reinforcement learn-ing by capturing higher-order history …

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Cognitive and computational modeling has been used as a method to understand the
processes underlying behavior in humans and other animals. A common approach in this …

Discovering Symbolic Cognitive Models from Human and Animal Behavior

PS Castro, N Tomasev, A Anand, N Sharma… - bioRxiv, 2025 - biorxiv.org
Symbolic models play a key role in cognitive science, expressing computationally precise
hypotheses about how the brain implements a cognitive process. Identifying an appropriate …