Statistics Papers
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
2002
Publication Source
Psychological Review
Volume
100
Issue
3
Start Page
533
Last Page
544
DOI
10.1037//0033-295X.109.3.533
Abstract
C. R. Gallistel and J. Gibbon (2000) presented quantitative data on the speed with which animals acquire behavioral responses during autoshaping, together with a statistical model of learning intended to account for them. Although this model captures the form of the dependencies among critical variables, its detailed predictions are substantially at variance with the data. In the present article, further key data on the speed of acquisition are used to motivate an alternative model of learning, in which animals can be interpreted as paying different amounts of attention to stimuli according to estimates of their differential reliabilities as predictors.
Recommended Citation
Kakade, S. M., & Dayan, P. (2002). Acquisition and Extinction in Autoshaping. Psychological Review, 100 (3), 533-544. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037//0033-295X.109.3.533
Date Posted: 27 November 2017
This document has been peer reviewed.
Comments
At the time of publication, author Sham Kakade was affiliated with the University College London. Currently, he is a faculty member at the Statistics Department at the University of Pennsylvania.