ArticleCurrent opinion in behavioral sciences2021
Learning from other minds: An optimistic critique of reinforcement learning models of social learning.
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Abstract
Reinforcement learning models have been productively applied to identify neural correlates of the value of social information. However, by operationalizing social information as a lean, reward-predictive cue, this literature underestimates the richness of human social learning: Humans readily go beyond action-outcome mappings and can draw flexible inferences from a single observation. We argue that computational models of social learning need
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