Reward Prediction Error Signals and Individual Learning Rates: A Model-Based Imaging Analysis
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22677763Keywords:
Reward Prediction Error Signals and Individual Learning Rates; Cognitive neuroscience; Neurofeedback; Evidence synthesis; Research methodologyAbstract
Reward Prediction Error Signals and Individual Learning Rates has moved quickly from a niche scientific question to something a
wider community can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull
together the current evidence for reward prediction error signals and individual learning rates, covering the methodological,
practical, regulatory and cost angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and reviewers
are still largely working it out for themselves. Selective, context-specific pursuit looks better supported by the evidence gathered
here than either broad rollout or blanket avoidance
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