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The unique value of zero prediction errors in reinforcement learning

2026-07-14

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Updating beliefs when necessary is at the cornerstone of learning. A fundamental problem is to describe under which conditions humans update their internal models of the world. The general assumption across animal, human, and artificial learning models 1–3 has been that updates occur when outcomes deviate from expectations. Perfectly predicted outcomes cause no learning. As a result, no research has examined case...

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Literature Corpus work: 9a2c4611-0a3c-5ffb-8fe3-fa0789a6d95c
DOI: 10.64898/2026.07.13.738284

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