A distributional code for value in dopamine-based reinforcement learning by Will Dabney et al in Nature 30 January 2020
AI teaches neuroscience about reward signalling. Computer scientists have successfully developed...
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Category: NEUROSCIENCE ACADEMIC PAPERS
Specialized coding of sensory, motor and cognitive variables in VTA dopamine neurons by Ben Engelhard et al in Nature 27 June 2019
Dopamine has numerous ways in which to express itself. Decision-making in the brain is a complex...
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Dissociable dopamine dynamics for learning and motivation by Ali Mohebi et al in Nature 6 June 2019
Dopamine system has two distinct functions: learning and motivation. Dopamine is produced...
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Stochastic synaptic plasticity underlying compulsion in a model of addiction by Vincent Pascoli et al in Nature 20 December 2018
The stochastic nature of neuronal networks in decision making. An intriguing experiment shows that...
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The hippocampus is crucial for forming non-hippocampal long-term memory during sleep by Anuck Sawangjit et al in Nature 6 December 2018
Hippocampus needed for consolidation of novel-object memories. Sawangjit et al start with the...
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The attentional requirements of consciousness by MA Cohen et al in Trends in Cognitive Sciences August 2012
Attention needed for consciousness, not vice versa. Is attention synonymous with consciousness?...
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Machine theory of mind by NC Rabinowitz et al at DeepMind 21 February 2018
How a machine might infer others’ behaviour by observation. There are some interesting...
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A New, Better BET: Rescuing Basic Emotion Theory by D D Hutto et al 2018
Basic and non-basic emotions: more research needed. This is a thought-provoking paper on the state...
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What is “the unconscious”, and where is it located in the brain? A neuropsychoanalytic perspective by Mark Solms in Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 10 July 2017
Turning the ego and the id upside down. Solms rests his theory on the observation that...
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The unbearable automaticity of being by JA Bargh and TL Chartrand in American Psychologist July 1999
The many different facets of the unconscious mind. In a wide-ranging analysis, the authors...
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Chasing the Rainbow: The Non-conscious Nature of Being by DA Oakley and PW Halligan in Frontiers in Psychology 14 November 2017
Excellent on the nature of consciousness. Not convinced about the purpose. Oakley and Halligan...
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On agency and body-ownership: Phenomenological and neurocognitive reflections by M Tsakiris et al in Consciousness and Cognition 2007
Unpicking the ties between sense of ownership and sense of agency. This paper expands on growing...
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Neural Circuits Underlying Imitation Learning of Hand Actions: An Event-Related fMRI Study by G Buccino in Neuron 22 April 2004
Insights into true imitation-based learning. The purpose of the mirror neuron system remains in...
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Imitation as behaviour parsing by RW Byrne in The Royal Society online 4 February 2017
Neural networks (biological ones) engage in learning too! Byrne proposes that imitation in great...
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A higher order theory of emotional consciousness by J LeDoux and R Brown in PNAS 14 January 2017
This excellent paper situates consciousness firmly in the neocortex, as a cognitive network....
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Precise auditory–vocal mirroring in neurons for learned vocal communication by JF Prather et al Nature January 2008
Mirror neurons in sparrows assist learning. The authors report on their successful experiments...
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Diminishing Reciprocal Fairness by Disrupting the Right Prefrontal Cortex by Daria Knoch et al in Science 2006
The paper summarises an experiment to determine how DLPFC operates with respect to receiving unfair offers in the Ultimatum Game, …
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