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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Category: TSR ACADEMIC PAPERS
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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Infrastructure construction without information exchange: the trail clearing mechanism in Atta leafcutter ants by T Bochynek et al in Proc. R. Soc. B 23 January 2019
Research sheds fresh light on feats of social insects. There is a growing tendency to look at the...
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The Future of AI Will Be About Less Data, Not More by J Wilson, P Daugherty & C Davenport in Harvard Business Review 14 January 2019
Introducing the next big chapter in AI development. It is easy to be carried away with today’s...
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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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Compound tool construction by New Caledonian crows by AMP von Bayern et al in Nature 24 October 2018
Yet another example of intelligence from the New Caledonian crow. A favourite for researchers, New...
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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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Building Machines that Learn and Think for Themselves by M Botvinick et al in Behavioural and Brain Sciences 2017
Homing in on the conceptual design of a thinking machine. There is growing agreement all round on...
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Imagination-augmented agents for deep reinforcement learning by T Weber, S Racaniere, DP Reichert et al 19 July 2017
Planning strategies in the real world takes imagination. A team at DeepMind has developed an...
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Equilibrium Propagation: Bridging the Gap between Energy-Based Models and Backpropagation by B Scellier and Y Bengio in Front. Comput. Neurosci. 4 May 2017
Could equilibrium propagation be nature’s way of doing backpropagation? This paper is absolutely...
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Theory of a machine’s mind by Timothy Revell in NewScientist 3 March 2018
AIs can now understand, or at least read, other AIs’ minds. DeepMind’s new Theory of Mind-net AI...
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Optimization as a model for few-shot learning by S Ravi and H Larochelle at ICLR 2017
Interesting new research on how to effect few-shot learning. AI researchers are making progress in...
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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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AI Safety Gridworlds by J Leike et al on Arxiv Vanity 28 November 2017
DeepMind turns its attention to AI safety. The folks at DeepMind are seeking to contribute to AI...
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Neuronal Prediction of Opponent’s Behavior during Cooperative Social Interchange in Primates by K Haroush and ZM Williams in Cell 12 March 2015
Did theory of mind start here, or somewhere like it? Haroush and Williams derive some interesting...
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