Humans display interindividual differences in the latent mechanisms underlying fear generalization behaviour.

ABSTRACT: Human generalization research aims to understand the processes underlying the transfer of prior experiences to new contexts. Generalization research predominantly relies on descriptive statistics, assumes a single generalization mechanism, interprets generalization from mono-source data, and disregards individual differences. Unfortunately, such an approach fails to disentangle various mechanisms underlying generalization behaviour and can readily result in biased conclusions regarding generalization tendencies. Therefore, we combined a computational model with multi-source data to mechanistically investigate human generalization behaviour. By simultaneously modelling learning, perceptual and generalization data at the individual level, we revealed meaningful variations in how different me

SUBMITTER: Yu K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11290606 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature