{"pk":27807,"title":"Action Function Learning","subtitle":null,"abstract":"How do people actively explore to learn about functional relationships, that is, how continuous inputs map onto continuous outputs? We introduce a novel paradigm to investigate information search in continuous, multi-feature function learning scenarios. Participants either actively selected or passively observed information to learn about an underlying linear function. We develop and compare different variants of rule-based (linear regression) and non-parametric (Gaussian process regression) active learning approaches to model participants' active learning behavior. Our results show that participants' performance is best described by a rule-based model that attempts to efficiently learn linear functions with a focus on high and uncertain outcomes. These results advance our understanding of how people actively search for information to learn about functional relations in the environment.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"active learning"},{"word":"Function learning"},{"word":"Rule Learning"},{"word":"Self-directed sampling"},{"word":"information search"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1p76k5tm","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Angela","middle_name":"","last_name":"Jones","name_suffix":"","institution":"Max Plank Institute for Human Development","department":""},{"first_name":"Eric","middle_name":"","last_name":"Schulz","name_suffix":"","institution":"Harvard","department":""},{"first_name":"Bjorn","middle_name":"","last_name":"Medder","name_suffix":"","institution":"Max Plank Institute for Human Development","department":""},{"first_name":"Azzurra","middle_name":"","last_name":"Rugerri","name_suffix":"","institution":"Max Plank Institute for Human Development, Technical University of Munich","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27807/galley/17447/download/"}]}