Keep focussing: striatal dopamine multiple functions resolved in a single mechanism tested in a simulated humanoid robot

The effects of striatal dopamine (DA) on behavior have been widely investigated over the past decades, with ``phasic'' burst firings considered as the key expression of a reward prediction error responsible for reinforcement learning. Less well studied is tonic DA, where putative function...

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Main Authors: Vincenzo G. Fiore, Valerio eSperati, Francesco eMannella, Marco eMirolli, Kevin eGurney, Karl eFriston, Raymond J. Dolan, Gianluca eBaldassarre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00124/full