Dissociable Effects of Curiosity and Hedonic Valence on Reinforcement Learning

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Curiosity and exploration support learning and adaptive decision-making in uncertain environments. While these processes are sensitive to motivational context, it remains unclear how outcome valence shapes exploration across species. Human studies suggest that aversive contexts increase exploration, but these effects often rely on verbal framing and explicit instructions. To gain deeper insight into how exploratio...

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• Conditioning, Classical
• Cues
• Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders
• Dopamine Antagonists
• Food
• Motivation
• Nucleus Accumbens
• Reward

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Literature Corpus work

fe144742-8e8b-593f-8c6c-d981a53f5541

DOI

10.1101/2025.06.24.660807