The stability flexibility tradeoff and the dark side of detail.

ABSTRACT: Learning in dynamic environments requires integrating over stable fluctuations to minimize the impact of noise (stability) but rapidly responding in the face of fundamental changes (flexibility). Achieving one of these goals often requires sacrificing the other to some degree, producing a stability-flexibility tradeoff. Individuals navigate this tradeoff in different ways; some people learn rapidly (emphasizing flexibility) and others rely more heavily on historical information (emphasizing stability). Despite the prominence of such individual differences in learning tasks, the degree to which they relate to broader characteristics of real-world behavior or pathologies has not been well explored. We relate individual differences in learning behavior to self-report measures thought to captu

SUBMITTER: Nassar MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8141540 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature