Code and data for：
Zhang^, Lengersdorff^, Mikus, Gläscher, & Lamm (2020). Frameworks, pitfalls, and suggestions of using reinforcement learning models in social neuroscience. (^Equal contributions) Social cognitive and affective neuroscience
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsaa089.

A 2-min flash talk of the paper is available on YouTube.

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This repository contains:

root
  ├─ code       # Matlab & R code to run the analyses and produce figures
  ├─ data       # behavioral & fMRI data

to reproduce all analyses and figures in the paper.

Note 1: to properly run all scripts, you may need to set the root of this repository as your work directory.
Note 2: to reproduce the Matlab figures, you may need the NaN Suite, the color brewer toolbox, and the offsetAxes function.

RL parameter simulations

• Figure 1A: rl_learning_curve.m --> calls simuRL_one_person.m
• Figure 1B: rl_outcome_weight.m
• Figure 1C: plot_softmax.m
• Figure 1D: rl_simulations.Rmd --> full simulation rl-simulations-generate-data.Rmd

fMRI time series of the prediction error

• Figure 2C: pe_time_series_plot.m*
• core function: ts_corr_basic.m --> relies on normalise.m
• permutation test: ts_perm_test.m

* See our empirical paper (Zhang & Gläscher, 2020) for the experiments and other findings.

posterior predictive check

• Figure 3A-C: plot_ppc.m
• model fitting: reinforcement_learning_HBA.R --> calls the stan model rl_ppc.stan

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For bug reports, please contact Lei Zhang (lei.zhang@univie.ac.at, or @lei_zhang_lz).

Thanks to Markdown Cheatsheet and shields.io.

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