Neuroeconomics: A Formal Test of Dopamine’s Role in Reinforcement Learning

Neuroeconomics: A Formal Test of Dopamine’s Role in Reinforcement Learning

Over the last two decades, dopamine and reinforcement learning have been increasingly linked. Using a novel, axiomatic approach, a recent study shows that dopamine meets the necessary and sufficient conditions required by the theory to encode a reward prediction error. Over the last two decades, dop...

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Published in:Current biology Vol. 24; no. 8; pp. R321 - R324
Main Author: DeWitt, Eric E.J.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: England Elsevier Inc 14-04-2014
Subjects:
Animals
Choice Behavior - physiology
Dopamine - secretion
Male
Nucleus Accumbens - secretion
Reward
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Summary:Over the last two decades, dopamine and reinforcement learning have been increasingly linked. Using a novel, axiomatic approach, a recent study shows that dopamine meets the necessary and sufficient conditions required by the theory to encode a reward prediction error. Over the last two decades, dopamine and reinforcement learning have been increasingly linked. Using a novel, axiomatic approach, a recent study shows that dopamine meets the necessary and sufficient conditions required by the theory to encode a reward prediction error.
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ISSN:0960-9822
1879-0445
DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2014.02.055