Dopamine, affordance and active inference.

The role of dopamine in behaviour and decision-making is often cast in terms of reinforcement learning and optimal decision theory. Here, we present an alternative view that frames the physiology of dopamine in terms of Bayes-optimal behaviour. In this account, dopamine controls the precision or sal...

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Main Authors: Karl J Friston, Tamara Shiner, Thomas FitzGerald, Joseph M Galea, Rick Adams, Harriet Brown, Raymond J Dolan, Rosalyn Moran, Klaas Enno Stephan, Sven Bestmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22241972/?tool=EBI