title: The effects of prior learned strategies on updating an opponent's strategy in the rock, paper, scissors game.
abstract: To explore how model building adapts to changing environments, we had participants play "rock-paper-scissors" against a computer that played a frequency bias or a player-dependent bias and then switched. Participants demonstrated their use of prior experience in how quickly they recognized and exploited changes in the computer's play strategy; in general, the more similar the strategies, the more efficient the updating. These findings inform our understanding of previously reported updating impairments in right-brain damaged patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo.
authors.forename: Elisabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Stöttinger
authors.forename: Alex
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Filipowicz
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Danckert
authors.forename: Britt
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Anderson
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D005716:Game Theory; D005717:Games, Experimental; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Bias structure; Mental model; Updating