Dual reward prediction components yield Pavlovian sign- and goal-tracking.

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a dominant paradigm for understanding animal behaviors and neural correlates of decision-making, in part because of its ability to explain Pavlovian conditioned behaviors and the role of midbrain dopamine activity as reward prediction error (RPE). However, rece...

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Main Authors: Sivaramakrishnan Kaveri, Hiroyuki Nakahara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4195585?pdf=render