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Asymmetric reinforcement learning facilitates human inference of transitive relations

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The description–experience gap: a challenge for the neuroeconomics of decision-making under uncertainty

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Choices Change the Temporal Weighting of Decision Evidence

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Confirmation bias is adaptive when coupled with efficient metacognition

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Dissociation between asymmetric value updating and perseverance in human reinforcement learning

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Two sides of the same coin: Beneficial and detrimental consequences of range adaptation in human reinforcement learning

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Rats use memory confidence to guide decisions

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Anatomical dissociation of intracerebral signals for reward and punishment prediction errors in humans

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Modeling changes in probabilistic reinforcement learning during adolescence

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A Normative Account of Confirmation Bias During Reinforcement Learning

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The asymmetric learning rates of murine exploratory behavior in sparse reward environments

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What do reinforcement learning models measure? Interpreting model parameters in cognition and neuroscience

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Children are full of optimism, but those rose-tinted glasses are fading—Reduced learning from negative outcomes drives hyperoptimism in children.

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Decreased transfer of value to action in Tourette syndrome

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Confidence drives a neural confirmation bias

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Modeling the effects of motivation on choice and learning in the basal ganglia

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Replicating patterns of prospect theory for decision under risk

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Biased belief updating and suboptimal choice in foraging decisions

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Information about action outcomes differentially affects learning from self-determined versus imposed choices

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Associations between aversive learning processes and transdiagnostic psychiatric symptoms in a general population sample

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Parallel model-based and model-free reinforcement learning for card sorting performance

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Impaired adaptation of learning to contingency volatility in internalizing psychopathology

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Comparative inspiration: From puzzles with pigeons to novel discoveries with humans in risky choice

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Reinforcement Learning, Fast and Slow

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Contextual influence on confidence judgments in human reinforcement learning

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Flexible combination of reward information across primates

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Dopaminergic medication reduces striatal sensitivity to negative outcomes in Parkinson’s disease

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A computational account of threat-related attentional bias

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Ten simple rules for the computational modeling of behavioral data

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Maintaining Beliefs in the Face of Negative News: The Moderating Role of Experience

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Confirmation Bias through Selective Overweighting of Choice-Consistent Evidence

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Influence of vmPFC on dmPFC Predicts Valence-Guided Belief Formation

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Neuroimaging of reward mechanisms in Gambling disorder: an integrative review

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The statistical structures of reinforcement learning with asymmetric value updates

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How the Level of Reward Awareness Changes the Computational and Electrophysiological Signatures of Reinforcement Learning

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Metaplasticity as a Neural Substrate for Adaptive Learning and Choice under Uncertainty

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Neuroscience-Inspired Artificial Intelligence

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The Importance of Falsification in Computational Cognitive Modeling

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Learning relative values in the striatum induces violations of normative decision making

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Confirmation bias in human reinforcement learning: Evidence from counterfactual feedback processing

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Pathological gambling: a review of the neurobiological evidence relevant for its classification as an addictive disorder

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Forming Beliefs: Why Valence Matters

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A Reinforcement Learning Mechanism Responsible for the Valuation of Free Choice

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Opponent actor learning (OpAL): Modeling interactive effects of striatal dopamine on reinforcement learning and choice incentive.

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Adaptive properties of differential learning rates for positive and negative outcomes

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Neural and Psychological Maturation of Decision-making in Adolescence and Young Adulthood

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Dissociable Effects of Dopamine and Serotonin on Reversal Learning

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Neural Prediction Errors Reveal a Risk-Sensitive Reinforcement-Learning Process in the Human Brain

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Twenty-Five Lessons from Computational Neuromodulation

(2012) Peter Dayan   NEURON

A computational framework for the study of confidence in humans and animals

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Signals in Human Striatum Are Appropriate for Policy Update Rather than Value Prediction

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Dopaminergic Genes Predict Individual Differences in Susceptibility to Confirmation Bias

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How unrealistic optimism is maintained in the face of reality

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Instructional control of reinforcement learning: A behavioral and neurocomputational investigation

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Pharmacological modulation of subliminal learning in Parkinson's and Tourette's syndromes

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Approach and avoidance learning in patients with major depression and healthy controls: relation to anhedonia

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The description–experience gap in risky choice

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Dorsal Striatal–midbrain Connectivity in Humans Predicts How Reinforcements Are Used to Guide Decisions

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