Research Activity
reversal learning
re·ver·sal learn·ing
Subclass of:
Learning
Definitions related to reversal learning:
  • Any situation where an animal or human is trained to respond differentially to two stimuli (e.g., approach and avoidance) under reward and punishment conditions and subsequently trained under reversed reward values (i.e., the approach which was previously rewarded is punished and vice versa).
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • Subjects are trained to respond differentially to two stimuli under reward and punishment conditions, and later are trained to reverse the reward values.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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