Correction: Humans perseverate on punishment avoidance goals in multigoal reinforcement learning

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Sharp PB, Russek EM, Huys QJM, Dolan RJ, Eldar E. 2022. Humans perseverate on punishment avoidance goals in multigoal reinforcement learning. eLife 11:e74402. doi: 10.7554/eLife.74402.

Published 24 February 2022

Paul Sharp, the lead author, noticed two errors in the naming of variables in two the key equations in the article.

Equation 6 is incorrect. The equation in the published article read::

(6) [QMBt+1(press=g)QMBt+1(press=j)]=[βMBrewardP(f=reward|press=g)tβMBpunishP(f=punish|press=g)tβMBrewardP(f=reward|press=j)tβMBpunishP(f=punish|press=j)t][01]

The correction to equation (6) is as follows:

(6) [QGPt+1(press=g)QGPt+1(press=j)]=[βGPrewardP(f=reward|a=pressg)tβGPpunishP(f=punish|a=pressg)tβGPrewardP(f=reward|a=pressj)tβGPpunishP(f=punish|a=pressj)t]

Equation 8 also also had a slight error in how the action variable was named. It is now consistent with how all other equations reflect the action taken. The original equation in the article was:

(8) P(a=press j)=eQIntegrated(press=j)eQIntegrated(press=j)+eQIntegrated(press=g)

The equation is now correction to read:

(8) P(press= j)=eQIntegrated(press=j)eQIntegrated(press=j)+eQIntegrated(press=g)

We apologize for any confusion this might have caused.

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  1. Evan M Russek

  2. Quentin JM Huys

  3. Eran Eldar

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  1. Paul B Sharp
  2. Evan M Russek
  3. Quentin JM Huys
  4. Raymond J Dolan
  5. Eran Eldar
(2022)
Correction: Humans perseverate on punishment avoidance goals in multigoal reinforcement learning
eLife 11:e83998.
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