Reposted by Romane Cecchi
New paper in Nature Communications 🎉
Led by @romanececchi.bsky.social, with @sgluth.bsky.social, we show that attention shapes value normalization in human reinforcement learning. Eye-tracking models explain nonlinear reward scaling better than an ad hoc parameter.
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Attention modulates value normalization in human reinforcement learning by shaping reward encoding - Nature Communications
People’s reward learning is shaped by context, but the cognitive origins of this bias remain poorly understood. Here, the authors provide evidence that attention may underlie these distortions by shap...