Venue: Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
Hosts: José Ribas-Fernandes (Champalimaud)
Speakers:
Nathaniel Daw, Center for Neural Science, New York UniversityTiago Maia, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, and School of Medicine, University of Lisbon
Instructors
Thomas Akam, Champalimaud Neuroscience ProgrammeEric DeWitt, Champalimaud Neuroscience ProgrammeCarlos Diuk, Princeton Neuroscience InstituteElliot Ludvig, Princeton Neuroscience InstituteJoe Paton, Champalimaud Neuroscience ProgrammeJosé Ribas-Fernandes, Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme
Since the 1990s, Reinforcement Learning has been pivotal in providing ideas for models of learning and decision making.
The most successful example is the understanding the activity of phasic dopaminergic neurons, but there are many more neural and behavioral applications.
It is the aim of this course to give the foundations of the models, with a hands-on approach, while making the connection to relevant concepts in psychology and neuroscience.