Statistical Models of Conditioning
Peter Dayan   Theresa Long
In NIPS 10, 117-123.
Abstract
Conditioning experiments probe the ways that animals make
predictions about rewards and punishments and use those predictions
to control their behavior. One standard model of conditioning
paradigms which involve many conditioned stimuli suggests that
individual predictions should be added together. Various key results
show that this model fails in some circumstances, and motivate an
alternative model, in which there is attentional selection between
different available stimuli. The new model is a form of mixture of
experts, has a close relationship with some other existing
psychological suggestions, and is statistically well-founded.
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