[PRE REVIEW]: Learning Simulator: A simulation software for animal and human learning

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Submitting author: @markusrobertjonsson (Markus Jonsson) Repository: https://github.com/learningsimulator/learningsimulator Version: 1.0.0 Editor: @oliviaguest Reviewers: @themkar, @CatarauCorina, @jkbye Managing EiC: Kyle Niemeyer

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The following historical commit information, by author, was found:

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[kyleniemeyer]

Hi @oliviaguest, can you edit this submission?

[whedon]

:point_right::page_facing_up: Download article proof :page_facing_up: View article proof on GitHub :page_facing_up: :point_left:

[kyleniemeyer]

@whedon invite @oliviaguest as editor

[whedon]

@oliviaguest has been invited to edit this submission.

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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

OK DOIs

- 10.1109/MCSE.2007.55 is OK

MISSING DOIs

- 10.1098/rsos.160734 may be a valid DOI for title: The power of associative learning and the ontogeny of optimal behaviour
- 10.1111/j.1751-0813.2010.00653.x may be a valid DOI for title: Carrots and sticks: Principles of animal training
- 10.1016/s0899-9007(98)00192-0 may be a valid DOI for title: Taste aversion learning: A contemporary perspective
- 10.4324/9780203803509 may be a valid DOI for title: Clinical applications of learning theory
- 10.1109/tsmcc.2012.2218595 may be a valid DOI for title: A survey of actor-critic reinforcement learning: Standard and natural policy gradients
- 10.1101/446906 may be a valid DOI for title: Social learning through associative processes: A computational theory
- 10.1098/rsos.180778 may be a valid DOI for title: What can associative learning do for planning?
- 10.1098/rsos.161011 may be a valid DOI for title: Memory for stimulus sequences: A divide between humans and other animals?
- 10.3758/brm.40.2.442 may be a valid DOI for title: HMS: A MATLAB simulator of the Harris model of associative learning
- 10.3758/lb.38.1.1 may be a valid DOI for title: An attention-modulated associative network
- 10.1016/j.cmpb.2012.02.004 may be a valid DOI for title: A Java simulator of Rescorla and Wagner’s prediction error model and configural cue extensions
- 10.3758/brm.41.1.29 may be a valid DOI for title: ALTSim: A MATLAB simulator for current associative learning theories
- 10.3758/brm.40.2.435 may be a valid DOI for title: Rapid-REM: A MATLAB simulator of the replaced-elements model
- 10.1109/adprl.2009.4927542 may be a valid DOI for title: A theoretical and empirical analysis of Expected Sarsa
- 10.1016/s0019-9958(77)90354-0 may be a valid DOI for title: An adaptive optimal controller for discrete-time Markov environments
- 10.3758/s13423-020-01749-0 may be a valid DOI for title: A-learning: A new formulation of associative learning theory

INVALID DOIs

- None

[oliviaguest]

@whedon assign @oliviaguest as editor

[whedon]

OK, the editor is @oliviaguest

[oliviaguest]

@markusrobertjonsson can you address the missing DOIs and when you get some time drop some names for reviewers, please? 😊

[oliviaguest]

@whedon add @themkar as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, @themkar is now a reviewer

[oliviaguest]

@whedon add @CatarauCorina as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, @CatarauCorina is now a reviewer

[oliviaguest]

@whedon add @jkbye as reviewer

[whedon]

OK, @jkbye is now a reviewer

[oliviaguest]

@whedon start review

[whedon]

OK, I've started the review over in https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/2891.