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    "title": "Distinguishing Between Process Models of Causal Learning",
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    "abstract": "The mechanisms of learning stimulus-stimulus relationships are a longstanding research subject in psychology and neuroscience. Although traditional computational models provide valuable insights into learning processes, they often focus on the average behavior of a population. Individual learning trajectories, however, exhibit a diverse range of behaviors not captured by these models. In this paper, we compare sampling-based process-level models (i.e., particle filters) to representative associative and causal models (i.e., augmented Rescorla-Wagner and PowerPC) in their ability to capture individual learning behavior. We use likelihood-free inference incorporating machine-learned summary statistics for model estimation. We conduct a simulation study to demonstrate high model identifiability and test the models on an existing dataset and a newly conducted experiment which replicates and extends previous studies. We find that most participants are best explained by a particle filtering account, but more targeted experimental designs are required to estimate the best-fitting sub-type of these particle filter models.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Psychology; Causal reasoning; Learning; Bayesian modeling; Computational Modeling"
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    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation",
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            "first_name": "Simon",
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            "last_name": "Valentin",
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            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
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            "first_name": "Lucas",
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            "last_name": "Castillo",
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            "institution": "University of Edinburgh",
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    "date_submitted": null,
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    "date_published": "2024-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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