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Project

Conflict monitoring and reinforcement learning
Code
3G009809
Duration
01 January 2009 → 31 December 2014
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Animal experimental and comparative psychology
    • Applied psychology
    • Human experimental psychology
Keywords
associative learning motivation cognitive control
 
Project description
 

In our everyday life, we are constantly confronted with conflicting irrelevant information that we have to overcome in order to carry out actions or decisions more efficiently. In this project, we use neurophysiologival and behavioural measures to investigate how such cognitive adaptations (conflict monitoring) can be better understood in terms of reinforcement learning principles (e.g., reward prediction errors, associative learning).