Strategy inference during learning via cognitive activity-based credit assignment models.

ABSTRACT: We develop a method for selecting meaningful learning strategies based solely on the behavioral data of a single individual in a learning experiment. We use simple Activity-Credit Assignment algorithms to model the different strategies and couple them with a novel hold-out statistical selection method. Application on rat behavioral data in a continuous T-maze task reveals a particular learning strategy that consists in chunking the paths used by the animal. Neuronal data collected in the dorsomedial striatum confirm this strategy.

SUBMITTER: James A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10256696 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature