A Model of How the Basal Ganglia Generate and Use Neural Signals That Predict Reinforcement

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction, Dopamine Neurons, Organization of Strtosomal Modules, Mechanism of Responsiveness to Predictors of Reinforcement, Correspondence with the Theory of Adaptive Critics, Learning to Predict Primary Reinforcement, Learning Earlier Predictors of Reinforcement, Relation to the Actor-Critic Architecture, More Realistic Assumptions, Summary, Acknowledgments, References