As the learning process progresses, the agent visits each state sufficient number of times to find the best policy (the best maximum TCP window size) to maximize its acquired rewards.
Humans and other animals routinely identify and attend to sensory stimuli so as to rapidly acquire rewards or avoid aversive experiences.
Furthermore, as both task sequences 1 and 2 were free operant tasks, the number of acquired rewards was different among the three reward conditions, which may affect 5-HT efflux.
α is the learning rate of the agent and determines the importance of the newly acquired reward.
Shaftesbury believed that both of these incorrect views imply that our only reason to be moral is to acquire reward and avoid punishment (doled out by either society or lawgiver).
This result rejects the possibility that the increased 5-HT efflux in the delayed reward condition in sequences 1 and 2 was due to the order effect or the difference in the amount of acquired reward.
The model neurons may start in a naïve state, where the initial weights are 0, or they may start with a previously acquired reward-predictive value, modeled here by setting the initial weights of a neuron to 1.
A 0 discount factor prohibits the agent from acquiring future rewards, while a factor of 1 pushes the agent to only consider future rewards.
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"The findings suggest that the motivation to acquire nonbiological rewards might resemble a visceral, hunger-like process more closely than previously assumed".
