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A Neural Substrate of Prediction and Reward

1997; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Volume: 275; Issue: 5306 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1126/science.275.5306.1593

ISSN

1095-9203

Autores

Wolfram Schultz, Peter Dayan, P. Read Montague,

Tópico(s)

Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research

Resumo

The capacity to predict future events permits a creature to detect, model, and manipulate the causal structure of its interactions with its environment. Behavioral experiments suggest that learning is driven by changes in the expectations about future salient events such as rewards and punishments. Physiological work has recently complemented these studies by identifying dopaminergic neurons in the primate whose fluctuating output apparently signals changes or errors in the predictions of future salient and rewarding events. Taken together, these findings can be understood through quantitative theories of adaptive optimizing control.

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