Reward Prediction Error Signals are Meta-Representational
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| Abstract | Contents 1. Introduction 2. Reward-Guided Decision Making 3. Content in the Model 4. How to Deflate a Metarepresentational Reading Proust and Carruthers on metacognitive feelings 5. A Deflationary Treatment of RPEs? 5.1 Dispensing with prediction errors 5.2 What is use of the RPE focused on? 5.3 Alternative explanations—worldly correlates 5.4 Contrast cases 6. Conclusion Appendix: Temporal Difference Learning Algorithms | |||||||||
| Keywords | metarepresentation metacognition nonconceptual content theories of content metasemantics nonconceptual content reward-guided decision-making prediction error reinforcement learning temporal difference learning algorithm | |||||||||
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