| Friday 19 April 2024 | |
| Events for day: Wednesday 10 March 2021 |
| 13:00 - 16:00 Workshop (online) Google BERT - Pre Training and Fine Tuning for NLP Tasks School COGNITIVE SCIENCES Workshop (online) 16:00 - 17:30 Theoretical Neuroscience Journal Club (online) Novelty is not Surprise: Human exploratory and adaptive behavior in sequential decision-making School COGNITIVE SCIENCES Organized by: School of Cognitive Sciences to receive the link to join online, please send email to theoretical.neurosci.ipm@gmail.com Abstract: Classic reinforcement learning (RL) theories cannot explain human behavior in response to changes in the environment or in the absence of external reward. Here, we design a deep sequential decision-making paradigm with sparse reward and abrupt environmental changes. To explain the behavior of human participants in these environments, we show that RL theories need to include surprise and novelty, each with a distinct role. While novelty drives explorat ... |