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Explicit memory representations in decisions from experience

2025-10-28

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Reinforcement learning (RL) models explain how people adapt behavior through incremental value updates but assume that individual experiences are not explicitly stored or retrieved. Across two experiments (N = 282 and N = 1,818), we tested whether people rely on such explicit memory representations during experience-based choice. Participants sampled outcomes from two lotteries and, in an “ignore” condition, were...

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Literature Corpus work: 99d7faa1-64c3-52c6-b984-2b3b1301c294
DOI: 10.1101/2025.10.27.684917

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