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Human behavior is generally guided by the anticipation of potential outcomes that are considered to be rewarding. Abnormalities in reward processes are striking and obvious across a variety of mental health issues and may precede the development of psychopathology. There is strong behavioral and physiological evidence that the brain both represents probability distributions and performs probabilistic inference on a continuous basis. Models based on this process are used to describe how the brain selects a course of action from among a group of actions where the known outcome is in some ways uncertain.
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Wasserman, T., Wasserman, L.D. (2019). The Role of the Reward Recognition Network in Therapy. In: Therapy and the Neural Network Model. Neural Network Model: Applications and Implications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26921-0_8
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