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“Liking” as an early and editable draft of long-run affective value
Psychological and neural distinctions between the technical concepts of “liking” and “wanting” pose important problems for motivated choice for goods. Why could we “want” something that we do not “like,” or “like” something but be unwilling to exert effort to acquire it? Here, we suggest a framework...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8730425/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34986138 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001476 |
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description | Psychological and neural distinctions between the technical concepts of “liking” and “wanting” pose important problems for motivated choice for goods. Why could we “want” something that we do not “like,” or “like” something but be unwilling to exert effort to acquire it? Here, we suggest a framework for answering these questions through the medium of reinforcement learning. We consider “liking” to provide immediate, but preliminary and ultimately cancellable, information about the true, long-run worth of a good. Such initial estimates, viewed through the lens of what is known as potential-based shaping, help solve the temporally complex learning problems faced by animals. |
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spelling | pubmed-87304252022-01-06 “Liking” as an early and editable draft of long-run affective value Dayan, Peter PLoS Biol Essay Psychological and neural distinctions between the technical concepts of “liking” and “wanting” pose important problems for motivated choice for goods. Why could we “want” something that we do not “like,” or “like” something but be unwilling to exert effort to acquire it? Here, we suggest a framework for answering these questions through the medium of reinforcement learning. We consider “liking” to provide immediate, but preliminary and ultimately cancellable, information about the true, long-run worth of a good. Such initial estimates, viewed through the lens of what is known as potential-based shaping, help solve the temporally complex learning problems faced by animals. Public Library of Science 2022-01-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8730425/ /pubmed/34986138 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001476 Text en © 2022 Peter Dayan https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Essay Dayan, Peter “Liking” as an early and editable draft of long-run affective value |
title | “Liking” as an early and editable draft of long-run affective value |
title_full | “Liking” as an early and editable draft of long-run affective value |
title_fullStr | “Liking” as an early and editable draft of long-run affective value |
title_full_unstemmed | “Liking” as an early and editable draft of long-run affective value |
title_short | “Liking” as an early and editable draft of long-run affective value |
title_sort | “liking” as an early and editable draft of long-run affective value |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8730425/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34986138 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001476 |
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