Topic: cue value

Learning relationships between cues in our environment enables us to recognise common underlying structures of events and is thought to form the basis of episodic memory. This type of learning - often called relational, hierarchical or structured learning - requires retaining both the stimulus identity as well as its relation to other cues, for example their relative order in time or location in space. Despite being essential for many of our everyday decisions, relational learning cannot be performed by classic reinforcement learning algorithms, and there is limited insight into how it is achi