Novelty encoding by the output neurons of the basal ganglia

Reinforcement learning models of the basal ganglia have focused on the resemblance of the dopamine signal to the temporal difference error. However the role of the network as a whole is still elusive, in particular whether the output of the basal ganglia encodes only the behavior (actions) or it is...

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Main Authors: Mati Joshua, Avital Adler, Hagai Bergman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2010-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/neuro.06.020.2009/full