Anne G. E. Collins

Learning to Pursue Goals that Conflict with Prior Experience Relies on Fast Revaluation and Slow Value Updating

Humans can flexibly pursue novel goals, learning to reach them from goal-dependent teaching signals. However, the breadth of this flexibility and its underlying mechanisms remain unclear. For example, can humans flexibly learn to reach a typically avoided outcome (e.g., +0) while avoiding a typically sought one (+1)? W...