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All forms of learning have an anticipatory component, either implicitly because it adapts the organism for the future or explicitly by supporting predictions of the future. Both forms of anticipatory learning can be controlled by the value of the future state (see Fig. 1), but can also occur independently of any value.
The control of anticipatory learning by the future state
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Balkenius, C., Johansson, B. (2012). Adaptation and Anticipation: Learning from Experience. In: Seel, N.M. (eds) Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1428-6_1865
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