Acquisition in Autoshaping
Sham Kakade   &   Peter Dayan
In NIPS 12, 24-30.
Abstract
Quantitative data on the speed with which animals acquire behavioral
responses during classical conditioning experiments should provide
strong constraints on models of learning. However, most models have
simply ignored these data; the few that have attempted to address
them have failed by at least an order of magnitude. We discuss key
data on the speed of acquisition, and show how to account for them
using a statistically sound model of learning, in which differential
reliabilities of stimuli play a crucial role.
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