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Journal article

When learning to achieve a goal through a complex series of actions, humans often group several actions into a subroutine and evaluate whether the subroutine achieved a specific subgoal. A new study reports brain responses consistent with such "hierarchical reinforcement learning."

Authors: Behrens, T; Jocham, G

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Neuron
• Volume: 71
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 203-205
• Publication date: 2011-07-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.07.004
• EISSN: 1097-4199
• ISSN: 0896-6273
• Language: English