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  Structure Learning in a Sensorimotor Association Task

Braun, D., Waldert, S., Aertsen, A., Wolpert, D., & Mehring, C. (2010). Structure Learning in a Sensorimotor Association Task. PLoS One, 5(1), 1-8. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008973.

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Braun, DA1, Author           
Waldert, S, Author
Aertsen, A1, Author           
Wolpert, DM, Author
Mehring, C, Author
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 Abstract: Learning is often understood as an organism's gradual acquisition of the association between a given sensory stimulus and the correct motor response. Mathematically, this corresponds to regressing a mapping between the set of observations and the set of actions. Recently, however, it has been shown both in cognitive and motor neuroscience that humans are not only able to learn particular stimulus-response mappings, but are also able to extract abstract structural invariants that facilitate generalization to novel tasks. Here we show how such structure learning can enhance facilitation in a sensorimotor association task performed by human subjects. Using regression and reinforcement learning models we show that the observed facilitation cannot be explained by these basic models of learning stimulus-response associations. We show, however, that the observed data can be explained by a hierarchical Bayesian model that performs structure learning. In line with previous results from cognitive tasks, this suggests that hierarchical Bayesian inference might provide a common framework to explain both the learning of specific stimulus-response associations and the learning of abstract structures that are shared by different task environments.

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 Dates: 2010-01
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 Identifiers: DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008973
BibTex Citekey: BraunWAWM2010
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Title: PLoS One
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Publ. Info: San Francisco, CA : Public Library of Science
Pages: - Volume / Issue: 5 (1) Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 1 - 8 Identifier: ISSN: 1932-6203
CoNE: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/journals/resource/1000000000277850