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Measuring Statistical Learning Across Modalities and Domains in School-Aged Children Via an Online Platform and Neuroimaging Techniques
Published on: June 30, 2020
Strategy inference during learning via cognitive activity-based credit assignment models
Ashwin James1, Patricia Reynaud-Bouret2, Giulia Mezzadri3
1Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, I3S, Nice, France.
Abstract:
We develop a method for selecting meaningful learning strategies based solely on the behavioral data of a single individual in a learning experiment. We use simple Activity-Credit Assignment algorithms to model the different strategies and couple them with a novel hold-out statistical selection method. Application on rat behavioral data in a continuous T-maze task reveals a particular learning strategy that consists in chunking the paths used by the animal. Neuronal data collected in the dorsomedial striatum confirm this strategy.
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