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Columbia University, New York
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Schedule
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
1:00 AM America/New_York
Domain
NeuroscienceOriginal Event
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van Vreeswijk TNS
Duration
70 minutes
I will discuss work with Jack Lindsey modeling reinforcement learning for action selection in the basal ganglia. I will argue that the presence of multiple brain regions, in addition to the basal ganglia, that contribute to motor control motivates the need for an off-policy basal ganglia learning algorithm. I will then describe a biological implementation of such an algorithm that predicts tuning of dopamine neurons to a quantity we call "action surprise," in addition to reward prediction error. In the same model, an implementation of learning from a motor efference copy also predicts a novel solution to the problem of multiplexing feedforward and efference-related striatal activity. The solution exploits the difference between D1 and D2-expressing medium spiny neurons and leads to predictions about striatal dynamics.
Ashok Litwin-Kumar
Columbia University, New York
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