Lisbon Reinforcement Learning and Neuroscience Course

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Venue: Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

Hosts: José Ribas-Fernandes (Champalimaud)

Speakers:

Nathaniel Daw, Center for Neural Science, New York University
  Tiago Maia, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, and School of Medicine, University of Lisbon

Instructors

  Thomas Akam, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme
  Eric DeWitt, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme
  Carlos Diuk, Princeton Neuroscience Institute
  Elliot Ludvig, Princeton Neuroscience Institute
  Joe Paton, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme
  José 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.

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