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Recent EEG research reveals distinct neural signatures for reward and emotion prediction errors, suggesting that integrating self-reported emotions can improve reinforcement-learning models of behavior.
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Discusses how including emotions and separate neural signatures for reward and emotion prediction errors might improve reinforcement-learning models.
Does including emotions improve reinforcement-learning models? A recent EEG study by Heffner and colleagues presents separate neural signatures for reward and emotion prediction errors. This advance invites questions about, and even holds clues to, which ingredients of emotion and prediction errors most improve reinforcement-learning models.
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Vollberg et al. (2025) reported an editorial. Recent EEG research reveals distinct neural signatures for reward and emotion prediction errors, suggesting that integrating self-reported emotions can improve reinforcement-learning models of behavior.
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