S4 Ep8: Your Mind on Agency & Decision-Making
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How do our beliefs about ourselves and the world influence the way we learn and make decisions? Dr. Hayley Dorfman joins us to discuss how internal representations like sense of control shape our learning processes. We discuss the interplay between reinforcement learning and Bayesian inference, how agency beliefs impact learning from positive and negative feedback, and how these processes change across different developmental stages/
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Dr. Hayley Dorfman
Research discussed
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Dorfman, H. M., Bhui, R., Hughes, B. L., & Gershman, S. J. (2019). Causal inference about good and bad outcomes. Psychological science, 30(4), 516-525.
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Cohen, A. O., Nussenbaum, K., Dorfman, H. M., Gershman, S. J., & Hartley, C. A. (2020). The rational use of causal inference to guide reinforcement learning strengthens with age. npj Science of Learning, 5(1), 16.
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Dorfman, H. M., Tomov, M. S., Cheung, B., Clarke, D., Gershman, S. J., & Hughes, B. L. (2021). Causal inference gates corticostriatal learning. Journal of Neuroscience, 41(32), 6892-6904.