Should I Stay or Should I Go? Neural Substrates of Being in the Right Place at the Right Time. Focus on “How Prior Reward Experience Biases Exploratory Movements: A Probabilistic Model”

Abstract

We are all familiar with Pavlov's dogs that salivate when the dinner bell rings or Skinner's pigeons that learn that a peck on a key yields a delicious treat. But what about learning that is not focused on specific predictive cues or particular instrumental behaviors? What about the more amorphous