<p>Seminar, three hours. Overview of dopamine prediction error—signal exhibited when there is difference between expected outcome and reality—and theories that have been used to describe it. Discussions of papers describing studies that led to discovery of prediction error, its application to temporal difference reinforcement learning (TDRL), and challenges to this theory by recent work using optogenetics. Letter grading.</p>

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Dopamine Prediction Error: Case Study of Reinforcement Learning Theory

PSYCH205N

2 units