title: SSCC TD: a serial and simultaneous configural-cue compound stimuli representation for temporal difference learning.
abstract: This paper presents a novel representational framework for the Temporal Difference (TD) model of learning, which allows the computation of configural stimuli--cumulative compounds of stimuli that generate perceptual emergents known as configural cues. This Simultaneous and Serial Configural-cue Compound Stimuli Temporal Difference model (SSCC TD) can model both simultaneous and serial stimulus compounds, as well as compounds including the experimental context. This modification significantly broadens the range of phenomena which the TD paradigm can explain, and allows it to predict phenomena which traditional TD solutions cannot, particularly effects that depend on compound stimuli functioning as a whole, such as pattern learning and serial structural discriminations, and context-related effects.
authors: Centre for Computational and Animal Learning Research, St Albans, United Kingdom.
authors: Esther
authors: E
authors: Mondragón
authors: Centre for Computational and Animal Learning Research, St Albans, United Kingdom; Institute for Complex Systems Simulations, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
authors: Jonathan
authors: J
authors: Gray
authors: Centre for Computational and Animal Learning Research, St Albans, United Kingdom; Department of Computer Science, City University London, London, United Kingdom.
authors: Eduardo
authors: E
authors: Alonso
authors: Centre for Computational and Animal Learning Research, St Albans, United Kingdom; School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
authors: Charlotte
authors: C
authors: Bonardi
authors: Centre for Computational and Animal Learning Research, St Albans, United Kingdom; Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
authors: Dómhnall J
authors: DJ
authors: Jennings
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003214:Conditioning, Classical / Q000502:physiology*; D003463:Cues; D004193:Discrimination Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological / Q000502:physiology; D005795:Generalization, Stimulus / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011582:Psychological Theory; D013997:Time Factors