The actions of others act as a pseudo-reward to drive imitation in the context of social reinforcement learning

• Anis Najar ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: anis.najar@ens.fr (AN); stefano.palminteri@ens.fr (SP)

  Affiliations Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Computationnelles, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France, Département d’Études Cognitives, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, Human Reinforcement Learning team, Université de Paris Sciences et Lettres, Paris, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6966-8469

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• Emmanuelle Bonnet,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Computationnelles, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France, Département d’Études Cognitives, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, Human Reinforcement Learning team, Université de Paris Sciences et Lettres, Paris, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9751-9778

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• Bahador Bahrami,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, General and Experimental Psychology, Munich, Germany, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, London United Kingdom, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for Adaptive Rationality, Berlin, Germany

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• Stefano Palminteri

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: anis.najar@ens.fr (AN); stefano.palminteri@ens.fr (SP)

  Affiliations Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Computationnelles, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France, Département d’Études Cognitives, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, Human Reinforcement Learning team, Université de Paris Sciences et Lettres, Paris, France

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5768-6646

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