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Rational models of conditioning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2009

Nick Chater
Nick Chater
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Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom. n.chater@ucl.ac.ukhttp://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/people/profiles/chater_nick.htm
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Abstract

Mitchell et al. argue that conditioning phenomena may be better explained by high-level, rational processes, rather than by non-cognitive associative mechanisms. This commentary argues that this viewpoint is compatible with neuroscientific data, may extend to nonhuman animals, and casts computational models of reinforcement learning in a new light.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , April 2009 , pp. 204 - 205
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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