Adolescents learn faster from negative reward prediction errors than adults in probabilistic reversal learning¶
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q3 i? Adolescents showed a significantly increased learning rate for negative RPEs in chosen objects compared to adults, while other model parameters did not differ significantly. → Hauser 2015
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Hauser 2015¶
Hauser, T. U., Iannaccone, R., Walitza, S., Brandeis, D., & Brem, S. (2015). Cognitive flexibility in adolescence: Neural and behavioral mechanisms of reward prediction error processing in adaptive decision making during development. Neuroimage, 104, 347-354. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.09.018
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Computational modeling of behavioral data from 19 adolescents (12-16 y) and 17 adults (20-29 y) performing a probabilistic reversal learning task, fitting the RSAV model parameters per participant. The article reports "adolescents had a significantly increased learning rate for negative RPEs in chosen objects" (αc− .69 vs .49, p = .04); no effect size is printed.
"Post-hoc t-tests revealed that adolescents had a significantly increased learning rate for negative RPEs in chosen objects (αc−: adults: .49 ± .05, adolescents: .69 ± .05, t(34) = − 2.816, p = .04, multiple comparison corrected, Fig. 2)"
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Age and Developmental Stage — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
Related Claims¶
- Adolescents and adults perform equally well on the probabilistic reversal learning task overall — related
- Adolescents show increased anterior insula responses specifically to negative reward prediction errors — related
- Adolescents showed a marginally decreased number of punishments before switching in reversal learning — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Group-by-RPE interaction in the anterior insula without a general group effect in overall activation — related
- Reward prediction errors are positively correlated with putamen, vmPFC, amygdala and posterior cingulate and anticorrelated with aIns, dmPFC and dlPFC — related
- A risk-sensitive reinforcement learning model with anticorrelated valuation fit reversal learning behavior better than standard models — related
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Adolescents learn faster from negative reward prediction errors than adults in probabilistic reversal learning |
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Adolescents learn faster from negative reward prediction errors than adults in probabilistic reversal learning |
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2015 |
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