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    "pk": 28680,
    "title": "Reinforcement Learning and Insight in the Artificial Pigeon",
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    "abstract": "The phenomenon of insight (also called “Aha!” or “Eureka!”moments) is considered a core component of creative cogni-tion. It is also a puzzle and a challenge for statistics-basedapproaches to behavior such as associative learning and rein-forcement learning. We simulate a classic experiment on in-sight in pigeons using deep Reinforcement Learning. We showthat prior experience may produce large and rapid performanceimprovements reminiscent of insights, and we suggest theo-retical connections between concepts from machine learning(such as the value function or overfitting) and concepts frompsychology (such as feelings-of-warmth and the einstellung ef-fect). However, the simulated pigeons were slower than thereal pigeons at solving the test problem, requiring a greateramount of trial and error: their “insightful” behavior was sud-den by comparison with learning from scratch, but slow bycomparison with real pigeons. This leaves open the questionof whether incremental improvements to reinforcement learn-ing algorithms will be sufficient to produce insightful behavior.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "reinforcement learning; insight; creativity"
        }
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    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentations",
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        {
            "first_name": "Thomas",
            "middle_name": "R.",
            "last_name": "Colin",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Plymouth",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Tony",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Belpaeme",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Plymouth",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2019-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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