Dopamine encoding of novelty facilitates efficient uncertainty-driven exploration
When facing an unfamiliar environment, animals need to explore to gain new knowledge about which actions provide reward, but also put the newly acquired knowledge to use as quickly as possible. Optimal reinforcement learning strategies should therefore assess the uncertainties of these action-reward...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2024
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