• DOI:10.1016/j.tics.2006.05.004
Corpus ID: 15537575

Bayesian theories of conditioning in a changing world

@article{Courville2006BayesianTO,
  title={Bayesian theories of conditioning in a changing world},
  author={Aaron C. Courville and N. Daw and D. Touretzky},
  journal={Trends in Cognitive Sciences},
  year={2006},
  volume={10},
  pages={294-300}
}

• Aaron C. Courville, N. Daw, D. Touretzky
• Published 2006
• Psychology, Medicine
• Trends in Cognitive Sciences

The recent flowering of Bayesian approaches invites the re-examination of classic issues in behavior, even in areas as venerable as Pavlovian conditioning. A statistical account can offer a new, principled interpretation of behavior, and previous experiments and theories can inform many unexplored aspects of the Bayesian enterprise. Here we consider one such issue: the finding that surprising events provoke animals to learn faster. We suggest that, in a statistical account of conditioning… Expand

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