发现大脑和神经网络在大偏差时更坚持旧预期,因学习机制自动切换。
Two pathways to resolve relational inconsistencies
- 用神经网络模拟关系学习,发现小偏差改预期,大偏差改对象表征
- 极端违反时保持原预期,符合人类实验现象,无需额外机制
- 揭示认知稳定性的内在机制,适合认知科学与机器学习交叉研究者
当个体遭遇违背预期的观察时,是调整预期还是坚持原有信念?例如,若预期类型A物体小于类型B,但观察到相反情况,何时会修正两者关系预期?直觉认为偏差越大越易调整,但实验显示极端偏差下反而更固守旧预期。为此,我们测试了具备关系学习能力的人工神经网络,发现类似现象:标准学习动态下,小偏差促使关系预期调整;而大偏差则通过改变对象表征来绕过预期调整,实现关系一致性。结果表明,人类在面对强烈矛盾时维持预期稳定,并非依赖额外机制,而是学习动态的自然结果。最后讨论了中间适应步骤对稳定性的影响。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
When individuals encounter observations that violate their expectations, when will they adjust their expectations and when will they maintain them despite these observations? For example, when individuals expect objects of type A to be smaller than objects B, but observe the opposite, when will they adjust their expectation about the relationship between the two objects (to A being larger than B)? Naively, one would predict that the larger the violation, the greater the adaptation. However, experiments reveal that when violations are extreme, individuals are more likely to hold on to their prior expectations rather than adjust them. To address this puzzle, we tested the adaptation of artificial neural networks (ANNs) capable of relational learning and found a similar phenomenon: Standard learning dynamics dictates that small violations would lead to adjustments of expected relations while larger ones would be resolved using a different mechanism -- a change in object representation that bypasses the need for adaptation of the relational expectations. These results suggest that the experimentally-observed stability of prior expectations when facing large expectation violations is a natural consequence of learning dynamics and does not require any additional mechanisms. We conclude by discussing the effect of intermediate adaptation steps on this stability.
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