Jarrod Moss, PhD
Associate Professor; Cognitive Science and Director of the Cognitive Science Program
Mississippi State University

Using Task Strategies to Understand the Interaction between Cognitive Systems
Multiple cognitive systems interact in many tasks, and the nature of these interactions can depend on the strategies that people use to accomplish a task. In this talk, I will examine results from a set of studies using a simple association learning task. Results from this task have been used as evidence for a theory of how reinforcement learning and working memory processes interact. However, we have found significant individual differences in the strategies that participants use in this simple task. The results suggest that reinforcement learning may not play a role in task performance. Instead, the results indicate that strategy selection may lead to a trade off between rate of learning and future memory performance.

Zoom link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/95398452378

This lecture made possible in part by a generous endowment from Professor Allen L. Edwards. 
Faculty host: Chantel Prat, csprat@uw.edu.

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