Generalizing to generalize: Humans flexibly switch between compositional and conjunctive structures during reinforcement learning

Nicholas T. Franklin; Michael J. Frank

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007720

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Generalizing to generalize: Humans flexibly switch between compositional and conjunctive structures during reinforcement learning

Nicholas T. Franklin ,

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

* E-mail: nfranklin@fas.harvard.edu (NTF); michael_frank@brown.edu (MJF)

Affiliations Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4657-9690

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Michael J. Frank

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: nfranklin@fas.harvard.edu (NTF); michael_frank@brown.edu (MJF)

Affiliations Department of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Carney Institute for Brain Science, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8451-0523

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Generalizing to generalize: Humans flexibly switch between compositional and conjunctive structures during reinforcement learning

Nicholas T. Franklin,
Michael J. Frank

Published: April 13, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007720

About the Authors

Nicholas T. Franklin

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

* E-mail: nfranklin@fas.harvard.edu (NTF); michael_frank@brown.edu (MJF)

Affiliations Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4657-9690

Michael J. Frank

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: nfranklin@fas.harvard.edu (NTF); michael_frank@brown.edu (MJF)

Affiliations Department of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America, Carney Institute for Brain Science, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8451-0523

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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