ArticleCurrent opinion in behavioral sciences2025
Aligning brain and behavior.
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- Dynamic salience as a basis for behavioural meta-malleability.Royal Society open science · 2026Review
- Dopamine dynamics during stimulus-reward learning in mice can be explained by performance rather than learning.Nature communications · 2025Article
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Abstract
To understand how the brain generates behavior, both brain activity and behavior must be measured accurately. Although neuroscience has developed powerful tools for measuring brain activity, its behavioral measures are far more primitive, in part because it lacks a coherent conceptual framework for analyzing and interpreting behavior. Here I shall review key limitations in current studies of behavior, such as categorical measures and input/output analysis, which are manifested in conventional behavioral measures and experimental designs. I shall discuss how these limitations stem from the dominant linear causation paradigm which has impeded progress in understanding the relationship between neural activity and behavior. Finally, I shall review recent studies that use alternative strategies for studying how the brain generates behavior, and experimental results that challenge the linear causation paradigm. These results suggest hierarchical feedback control with intrinsic reference states, circular causation, and simultaneous reciprocal interactions between the organism and the environment.
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