Heterogeneity in strategy use during arbitration between experiential and observational learning.

ABSTRACT: To navigate our complex social world, it is crucial to deploy multiple learning strategies, such as learning from directly experiencing action outcomes or from observing other people's behavior. Despite the prevalence of experiential and observational learning in humans and other social animals, it remains unclear how people favor one strategy over the other depending on the environment, and how individuals vary in their strategy use. Here, we describe an arbitration mechanism in which the prediction errors associated with each learning strategy influence their weight over behavior. We designed an online behavioral task to test our computational model, and found that while a substantial proportion of participants relied on the proposed arbitration mechanism, there was some meaningful heter

SUBMITTER: Charpentier CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11126711 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature