Emotion and prediction errors: which ingredients matter?

Article Article scientifique Commentaire Emotion and prediction errors: which ingredients matter? eng 2025-10-21 2025-10 author Vollberg Marius Zurich Center for Neuroeconomics, Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. 948607 author Stussi Yoann 0000-0002-8601-6737 Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Psychology, FPSE, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. 700303 Section de psychologie (PSICO) author Pool Eva Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Psychology, FPSE, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. 699771 Section de psychologie (PSICO) author Sander David Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Psychology, FPSE, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address: David.Sander@unige.ch. 558712 Section de psychologie (PSICO) 10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.006 41125477 1364-6613 https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1364661325002815 Does including emotions improve reinforcement-learning models? A recent EEG study by Heffner and colleagues presents separate neural signatures for reward and emotion prediction errors. This advance invites questions about, and even holds clues to, which ingredients of emotion and prediction errors most improve reinforcement-learning models. Affect Emotion Prediction error Reinforcement learning Social behavior Dewey 128.37 Dewey 150 Swiss National Science Foundation Behavioral, psychophysiological, and computational signatures of affective influences on information value learning 10005828 CH Project funding Swiss National Science Foundation Affective mechanisms of reward processing underlying food intake and sedentariness 10007143 CH Project funding Swiss National Science Foundation Computational principles of affect in social learning and decision making 223290 CH Careers Swiss National Science Foundation Emotion in Education Network 229182 CH 15 Centre interfacultaire en sciences affectives 0D8 108 Section de psychologie 71 false 1241 Affective sciences 593 Emergence et expression de l'émotion (E3 Lab) 1453 Affect, apprentissage et décisions (ALD LAB) Trends in cognitive sciences f644ac71-d9fc-4159-a1a4-de3644274865 Article (Published version) Public 1-s2.0-S1364661325002815-main.pdf 118355 application/pdf CC BY-4.0 b2802a768e4fc72a1652b39bbac778423a20fd48553a95a96d176fc3907f8bbf openAccess Centres et instituts / Centre interfacultaire en sciences affectives Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie

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