Adolescents flexibly adapt action selection based on controllability inferences.

ABSTRACT: From early in life, we encounter both controllable environments, in which our actions can causally influence the reward outcomes we experience, and uncontrollable environments, in which they cannot. Environmental controllability is theoretically proposed to organize our behavior. In controllable contexts, we can learn to proactively select instrumental actions that bring about desired outcomes. In uncontrollable environments, Pavlovian learning enables hard-wired, reflexive reactions to anticipated, motivationally salient events, providing "default" behavioral responses. Previous studies characterizing the balance between Pavlovian and instrumental learning systems across development have yielded divergent findings, with some studies observing heightened expression of Pavlovian learning du

SUBMITTER: Raab HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11000582 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature