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Reinforcement learning in the brain relies on different dopamine neurons discounting rewards at different rates.

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When we observe the world, we note that events consistently follow one another. As David Hume famously argued in An Enquiry Concerning…

LIP and SC are interconnected areas important for perceptual decision making. Stine et al. show that these areas play distinct roles during decisions. LIP represents the accumulation of evidence, wher...

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Of all the people justifiably living in fear of the incoming Trump administration, there is one group that stands out for its vulnerability and, to quote the late Tony Campolo, you don’t give a damn. ...

By Kristopher T. Jensen. Reinforcement learning for neuroscientists

History repeats itself, the first time as farce, the second as clown show

Model-based learning involves building mental representations of predictive relationships between events. Although there is growing evidence clarifyin…

A fundamental question relating to animal behaviour is how animals learn; in particular, how they come to associate stimuli with rewards. Numerous emp…