I'm interested in emotion, and how it affects learning. I'm developing a neural model of model-based reinforcement learning.

Publications

Theses

• Mariah Martin Shein (2017) A spiking neural network of state transition probabilities in model-based reinforcement learning. Master's thesis, University of Waterloo.  Abstract  External link

Conference and Workshop Papers

• Mariah Martin Shein, Terrence C. Stewart, Chris Eliasmith (2017) Parameter exploration of a neural model of state transition probabilities in model-based reinforcement learning. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Cognitive Modelling.  Abstract  PDF