ArticleJournal of experimental psychology. General2025
How working memory and reinforcement learning interact when avoiding punishment and pursuing reward concurrently.
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- Model-Based Electroencephalography Phenotyping Uncovers Distinct Neurocomputational Mechanisms Underlying Learning Impairments Across Psychopathologies.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2026Article
- Parallel trade-offs in human cognition and neural networks: The dynamic interplay between in-context and in-weight learning.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
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Humans learn adaptive behaviors via a durable but incremental reinforcement learning (RL) system and a fast but fleeting working memory (WM) system. Past work parsing these systems focused on reward learning alone; hence, little is known about how they interact while simultaneously learning to avoid punishment and whether arbitrating between these demands is disrupted by psychiatric symptoms. We administered a novel reward/punishment RL-WM task to an online sample oversampled for depression and anxiety symptoms (
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