ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023
Reward expectations direct learning and drive operant matching in
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Cannabinoid CB1 receptor in dopaminergic circuit from ventral tegmental area to nucleus accumbens links trait anxiety with reward learning.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
- The role of dopamine in foraging decisions in social insects.Frontiers in insect science · 2025Review
- Neuronal circuit mechanisms of competitive interaction between action-based and coincidence learning.Science advances · 2024Article
- Brain mechanism of foraging: Reward-dependent synaptic plasticity versus neural integration of values.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Prediction error drives associative learning and conditioned behavior in a spiking model of Drosophila larva.iScience · 2024Article
- Model-based inference of synaptic plasticity rules.Advances in neural information processing systems · 2024Article
- Reward expectations direct learning and drive operant matching inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Input density tunes Kenyon cell sensory responses in the Drosophila mushroom body.Current biology : CB · 2023Article
- Hacking brain development to test models of sensory coding.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Foraging animals must use decision-making strategies that dynamically adapt to the changing availability of rewards in the environment. A wide diversity of animals do this by distributing their choices in proportion to the rewards received from each option, Herrnstein's operant matching law. Theoretical work suggests an elegant mechanistic explanation for this ubiquitous behavior, as operant matching follows automatically from simple synaptic plasticity rules acting within behaviorally relevant neural circuits. However, no past work has mapped operant matching onto plasticity mechanisms in the brain, leaving the biological relevance of the theory unclear. Here, we discovered operant matching in
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