Education

Summary: This study examines how confirmation bias in reinforcement learning may benefit learners by reducing decisional and environmental noise, finding through human experiments and simulations that asymmetric learning from choice-confirming outcomes can maximize rewards when disconfirming feedback is not entirely ignored.

Summary: This study investigates how executive functions support belief revision in elementary school children, finding that making predictions enhances learning by increasing metacognitive flexibility, whereas post-hoc evaluation relies more heavily on inhibition and switching skills.