Neural representation of abstract task structure during generalization
eLife, 2021 Cognitive models in psychology and neuroscience widely assume that the human brain maintains an abstract representation of tasks. This assumption is fundamental to theories explaining how we learn quickly, think creatively, and act flexibly.
Avinash R Vaidya +3 more
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Parental involvement in sport:psychometric development and empirical test of a theoretical model [PDF]
, 2018 The purposes of the present multistudy were to develop and provide initial construct validity for measures based on the model of parental involvement in sport (Study 1) and examine structural relationships among the constructs of the model (Study 2).
Calmeiro, Luis +4 more
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Research on Moral Education Affinity from the Perspective of Psychology
Ethics in Progress, 2020 Moral education affinity has a very important influence on the smoothdevelopment of moral education activities and the improvement of educationaleffectiveness.
Zhang Jing, Li Suting
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Perceptions of parenting practices and psychological variables of elite and sub-elite youth athletes [PDF]
, 2019 Drawing from the model of parental involvement in sport, the overall purpose was to examine the associations of perceptions of parenting practices (encouragement, reinforcement, instruction, and role modeling) and athletes’ psychological variables (self ...
Calmeiro, Luis +4 more
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What is intrinsic motivation? A typology of computational approaches
Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2009 Intrinsic motivation, the causal mechanism for spontaneous exploration and curiosity, is a central concept in developmental psychology. It has been argued to be a crucial mechanism for open-ended cognitive development in humans, and as such has gathered ...
Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Frederic Kaplan
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Manipulating Memory Associations Changes Decision-making Preferences in a Preconditioning Task [PDF]
, 2019 Memories of past experiences can guide our decisions. Thus, if memories are undermined or distorted, decision making should be affected. Nevertheless, little empirical research has been done to examine the role of memory in reinforcement decision-making .
Howe, M. L. +4 more
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There's a monster in my kitchen: using aversive feedback to motivate behaviour change [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper we argue that “persuasive technologies,” developed to motivate behaviour change in users, have so far failed to exploit the established body of empirical research within behavioural science.
Doughty, Mark +4 more
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Mixture of personality improved spiking actor network for efficient multi-agent cooperation
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 Adaptive multi-agent cooperation with especially unseen partners is becoming more challenging in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) research, whereby conventional deep-learning-based algorithms suffer from the poor new-player-generalization ...
Xiyun Li +15 more
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A reinforcement sensitivity perspective on adolescents' susceptibility to the influence of soap opera viewing on alcohol attitudes [PDF]
, 2015 Previous research found support for an association between exposure to alcohol-related media content and alcohol attitudes, intentions and behavior. Nevertheless, research on what makes young people susceptible to the occurrence of this relationship is ...
Beullens, Kathleen +6 more
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Reinforcement Learning Inspired by Psychology and Neuroscience
Journal of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023 Decision-making is a crucial intelligence shared by animals and humans and it helps them to act in an intricate environment to seek rewards and avoid punishments. Psychologists first became interested in this ability and studied the conditional behavioral problems associated with it, then these studies have further led to the need for unified ...
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