The ability to make optimal decisions depends on evaluating the expected rewards
associated with different potential actions. This process is critically dependent on the fidelity …

The odor span task (OST) is frequently used to assess memory capacity in rodents. Odor
stimuli are presented in a large arena and choices of session-novel odors produce food …

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a theoretical framework that describes how agents learn to
select options that maximize rewards and minimize punishments over time. We often make …

Previous theoretical studies of animal and human behavioral learning have focused on the
dichotomy of the value-based strategy using action value functions to predict rewards and …

Rodents can successfully learn multiple novel stimulus–response associations after only a
few repetitions when the contingencies predict reward. The circuits modified during such …

In their natural environment, animals often make decisions based on abstract relationships
among multiple stimulus representations. Humans and other primates can determine not …

Reinforcement learning is a theoretical framework that describes how agents learn to select
options that maximize rewards and minimize punishments over time. We often make …

Contemporary reinforcement learning (RL) theory suggests that potential choices can be
evaluated by strategies that may or may not be sensitive to the computational structure of …

Rodents can successfully learn multiple, novel stimulus-response associations after only a
few repetitions when the contingencies predict reward. The circuits modified during such …

Most utility theories of choice assume that the introduction of an irrelevant option (called the
decoy) to a choice set does not change the preference between existing options. On the …