Learning the structure of the world: The adaptive nature of state-space and action representations in multi-stage decision-making

Amir Dezfouli; Bernard W. Balleine

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007334

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Learning the structure of the world: The adaptive nature of state-space and action representations in multi-stage decision-making

Amir Dezfouli,

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

Affiliations School of Psychology, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, Data61, CSIRO, Sydney, Australia
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Bernard W. Balleine

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: bernard.balleine@unsw.edu.au

Affiliation School of Psychology, UNSW, Sydney, Australia

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8618-7950

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Learning the structure of the world: The adaptive nature of state-space and action representations in multi-stage decision-making

Amir Dezfouli,
Bernard W. Balleine

Published: September 6, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007334

About the Authors

Amir Dezfouli

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

Affiliations School of Psychology, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, Data61, CSIRO, Sydney, Australia

Bernard W. Balleine

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: bernard.balleine@unsw.edu.au

Affiliation School of Psychology, UNSW, Sydney, Australia

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8618-7950

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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