Social learning through prediction error in the brain

Abstract Learning about the world is critical to survival and success. In social animals, learning about others is a necessary component of navigating the social world, ultimately contributing to increasing evolutionary fitness. How humans and nonhuman animals represent the internal states and exper...

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Autores principales: Jessica Joiner, Matthew Piva, Courtney Turrin, Steve W. C. Chang
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:51a6e561d69949768a1401e2f8cd49082021-12-02T12:30:41ZSocial learning through prediction error in the brain10.1038/s41539-017-0009-22056-7936https://doaj.org/article/51a6e561d69949768a1401e2f8cd49082017-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-017-0009-2https://doaj.org/toc/2056-7936Abstract Learning about the world is critical to survival and success. In social animals, learning about others is a necessary component of navigating the social world, ultimately contributing to increasing evolutionary fitness. How humans and nonhuman animals represent the internal states and experiences of others has long been a subject of intense interest in the developmental psychology tradition, and, more recently, in studies of learning and decision making involving self and other. In this review, we explore how psychology conceptualizes the process of representing others, and how neuroscience has uncovered correlates of reinforcement learning signals to explore the neural mechanisms underlying social learning from the perspective of representing reward-related information about self and other. In particular, we discuss self-referenced and other-referenced types of reward prediction errors across multiple brain structures that effectively allow reinforcement learning algorithms to mediate social learning. Prediction-based computational principles in the brain may be strikingly conserved between self-referenced and other-referenced information.Jessica JoinerMatthew PivaCourtney TurrinSteve W. C. ChangNature PortfolioarticleSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. NeuropsychiatryRC321-571ENnpj Science of Learning, Vol 2, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2017)
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Jessica Joiner
Matthew Piva
Courtney Turrin
Steve W. C. Chang
Social learning through prediction error in the brain
description Abstract Learning about the world is critical to survival and success. In social animals, learning about others is a necessary component of navigating the social world, ultimately contributing to increasing evolutionary fitness. How humans and nonhuman animals represent the internal states and experiences of others has long been a subject of intense interest in the developmental psychology tradition, and, more recently, in studies of learning and decision making involving self and other. In this review, we explore how psychology conceptualizes the process of representing others, and how neuroscience has uncovered correlates of reinforcement learning signals to explore the neural mechanisms underlying social learning from the perspective of representing reward-related information about self and other. In particular, we discuss self-referenced and other-referenced types of reward prediction errors across multiple brain structures that effectively allow reinforcement learning algorithms to mediate social learning. Prediction-based computational principles in the brain may be strikingly conserved between self-referenced and other-referenced information.
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author Jessica Joiner
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