Accounting for sensitivity of latent learning to behavioral statistics with successor representations

Matheus Menezes; Xiangshuai Zeng; Sen Cheng

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1014131

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Accounting for sensitivity of latent learning to behavioral statistics with successor representations

Matheus Menezes,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Laboratory of Artificial Cognition Methods for Optimisation and Robotics, Federal University of Maranhão, São Luís, Brazil, Institute for Neural Computation, Faculty of Computer Science, Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8676-1131

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Xiangshuai Zeng,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute for Neural Computation, Faculty of Computer Science, Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9453-2988

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Sen Cheng

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: sen.cheng@rub.de

Affiliation Institute for Neural Computation, Faculty of Computer Science, Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6719-8029

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Accounting for sensitivity of latent learning to behavioral statistics with successor representations

Matheus Menezes,
Xiangshuai Zeng,
Sen Cheng

Published: March 24, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1014131

About the Authors

Matheus Menezes

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Laboratory of Artificial Cognition Methods for Optimisation and Robotics, Federal University of Maranhão, São Luís, Brazil, Institute for Neural Computation, Faculty of Computer Science, Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8676-1131

Xiangshuai Zeng

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute for Neural Computation, Faculty of Computer Science, Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9453-2988

Sen Cheng

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: sen.cheng@rub.de

Affiliation Institute for Neural Computation, Faculty of Computer Science, Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6719-8029

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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