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- Title
A neural substrate of prediction and reward.
- Authors
Schultz, W; Dayan, P; Montague, P R
- Abstract
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.
- Publication
Science (New York, N.Y.), 1997, Vol 275, Issue 5306, p1593
- ISSN
0036-8075
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1126/science.275.5306.1593