It also produces a negativity bias, another feature of anhedonia. To simulate adulthood, we “froze” agents’ temporal representations and then placed them in an environment with predictably timed rewards. ELU agents’ showed larger prediction errors when reward was omitted than when received. (8/10)

In this paper, we show that these maladaptive behaviors can emerge from adaptive developmental processes. There’s other analyses that I haven’t mentioned in this thread — including how different dimensions of adversity interact in non-additive ways. Check out the paper to read about those! (9/10)