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- Title
Addiction as a computational process gone awry.
- Authors
Redish, A David
- Abstract
Addictive drugs have been hypothesized to access the same neurophysiological mechanisms as natural learning systems. These natural learning systems can be modeled through temporal-difference reinforcement learning (TDRL), which requires a reward-error signal that has been hypothesized to be carried by dopamine. TDRL learns to predict reward by driving that reward-error signal to zero. By adding a noncompensable drug-induced dopamine increase to a TDRL model, a computational model of addiction is constructed that over-selects actions leading to drug receipt. The model provides an explanation for important aspects of the addiction literature and provides a theoretic view-point with which to address other aspects.
- Publication
Science (New York, N.Y.), 2004, Vol 306, Issue 5703, p1944
- ISSN
1095-9203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1126/science.1102384