A hypothesis for basal ganglia-dependent reinforcement learning in the songbird

Most of our motor skills are not innately programmed, but are learned by a combination of motor exploration and performance evaluation, suggesting that they proceed through a reinforcement learning (RL) mechanism. Songbirds have emerged as a model system to study how a complex behavioral sequence ca...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fee, Michale S., Goldberg, Jesse H.
Other Authors: McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier BV 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126651