Social learning as a way to overcome choice-induced preferences? Insights from humans and rhesus macaques

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue SEP, 2012, Pages

  Monfardini, Elisabetta ^a,b,c   Gaveau, Valérie ^a,b   Boussaoud, Driss ^d   Hadj Bouziane, Fadila ^a,b   Meunier, Martine ^a,b  

^a LYON NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c Institut de Médecine Environnementale   (France)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Choice induced preference; Cognitive biases; Humans; Reinforcement learning; Rhesus macaques; Social learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PEER GROUP; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; REWARD; RHESUS MONKEY; SOCIAL LEARNING;

EID: 84870896027     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00127     Document Type: Article

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