Inverse Q-learning as a tool to investigate behavior and its neural correlatesJ. Boedecker and H. Zhu (alphabetical author order) FOR 5159 'Prefrontal Flexibility’ Agenda Staff Retreat, September 2023. Understanding goal directed animal behavior has been an widely interested topic in the neuroscience community. Recently, reinforcement learning and inverse reinforcement learning methods have been recognized as a useful tool for the research of this topic. In this talk we discuss how these tools can be applied to answer the following questions: How do we explain goal-directed animal behavior given that we often see objectively nonoptimal behavior, which factors contribute, and what are the animals optimizing for? |