{"pk":21681,"title":"Distinguishing Between Process Models of Causal Learning","subtitle":null,"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","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Psychology; Causal reasoning; Learning; Bayesian modeling; Computational Modeling"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2p43j2cw","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Simon","middle_name":"","last_name":"Valentin","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Edinburgh","department":""},{"first_name":"Lucas","middle_name":"","last_name":"Castillo","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Warwick","department":""},{"first_name":"Adam","middle_name":"","last_name":"Sanborn","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Warwick","department":""},{"first_name":"Chris","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lucas","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Edinburgh","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2024-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21681/galley/11280/download/"},{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/21681/galley/22074/download/"}]}