Heads for learning, tails for memory: Reward, reinforcement and a role of dopamine in determining behavioural relevance across multiple timescales

Dopamine has long been tightly associated with aspects of reinforcement learning and motivation in simple situations where there are a limited number of stimuli to guide behaviour and constrained range of outcomes. In naturalistic situations, however, there are many potential cues and foraging strat...

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Main Authors: Mathieu eBaudonnat, Anna eHuber, Vincent eDavid, Mark Edwin Walton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2013.00175/full