Optimism as a Prior Belief about the Probability of Future Reward

• Aistis Stankevicius ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aistis Stankevicius, Quentin J. M. Huys

  Affiliation Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Quentin J. M. Huys ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aistis Stankevicius, Quentin J. M. Huys

  Affiliations Translational Neuromodeling Unit, Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of Zürich and ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit and Wellcome Trust Neuroimaging Centre, UCL, London, United Kingdom

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• Aditi Kalra,

  Affiliation Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Peggy Seriès

  * E-mail: pseries@inf.ed.ac.uk

  Affiliation Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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