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Temporal Uncertainty During Overshadowing: A Temporal Difference Account

Temporal Uncertainty During Overshadowing: A Temporal Difference Account
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Author(s): Dómhnall J. Jennings (Newcastle University, UK), Eduardo Alonso (City University London, UK), Esther Mondragón (Centre for Computational and Animal Learning Research, UK)and Charlotte Bonardi (University of Nottingham, UK)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 10
Source title: Computational Neuroscience for Advancing Artificial Intelligence: Models, Methods and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Eduardo Alonso (City University, UK)and Esther Mondragón (University College London, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-021-1.ch003

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Abstract

Standard associative learning theories typically fail to conceptualise the temporal properties of a stimulus, and hence cannot easily make predictions about the effects such properties might have on the magnitude of conditioning phenomena. Despite this, in intuitive terms we might expect that the temporal properties of a stimulus that is paired with some outcome to be important. In particular, there is no previous research addressing the way that fixed or variable duration stimuli can affect overshadowing. In this chapter we report results which show that the degree of overshadowing depends on the distribution form - fixed or variable - of the overshadowing stimulus, and argue that conditioning is weaker under conditions of temporal uncertainty. These results are discussed in terms of models of conditioning and timing. We conclude that the temporal difference model, which has been extensively applied to the reinforcement learning problem in machine learning, accounts for the key findings of our study.

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