Nathaniel D. Daw

THE COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF MOTIVATION AND LEARNING (2009)

Nathaniel D. Daw, Daphna Shohamy, Mate Lengyel, Catherine Myers, Yael Niv, Shannon Tubridy, ...

Recent advances in the cognitive neuroscience of motivation and learning have demonstrated a critical role for midbrain dopamine and its targets in reward prediction. Converging evidence suggests...

Correspondence (2009)

Bernard W. Balleine, Nathaniel D. Daw, Bernard Balleine

Among the key findings in the behavioral psychology and systems neuroscience of decision-making is that the same behavior – for instance, a rat’s lever press – can arise from multiple...

A Dual Role for Prediction Error in Associative Learning (2009)

Friston, Karl J., Daw, Nathaniel D., McIntosh, Anthony R., Stephan, Klaas E.

Confronted with a rich sensory environment, the brain must learn statistical regularities across sensory domains to construct causal models of the world. Here, we used functional magnetic resonance...

et de recherche opérationnelle (2008)

Nathaniel D. Daw, Aaron C. Courville

Although theorists have interpreted classical conditioning as a laboratory model of Bayesian belief updating, a recent reanalysis showed that the key features that theoretical models capture about...

LETTER Communicated by Mark Ungless Representation and Timing in Theories of the Dopamine System (2008)

Nathaniel D. Daw, Aaron C. Courville, David S. Tourtezky

Although the responses of dopamine neurons in the primate midbrain are well characterized as carrying a temporal difference (TD) error signal for reward prediction, existing theories do not offer a...

Opinion TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences Vol.10 No.7 July2006 Special Issue: Probabilistic models of cognition Bayesian theories of conditioning in a changing world (2008)

Aaron C. Courville, Nathaniel D. Daw, David S. Touretzky

The recent flowering of Bayesian approaches invites the re-examination of classic issues in behavior, even in areas as venerable as Pavlovian conditioning. A statistical account can offer a new,...

The rat as particle filter (2008)

Nathaniel D. Daw, Aaron C. Courville

The core tenet of Bayesian modeling is that subjects represent beliefs as distributions over possible hypotheses. Such models have fruitfully been applied to the study of learning in the context of...

LETTER Communicated by Andrew Barto Long-Term Reward Prediction in TD Models of the Dopamine System (2007)

Nathaniel D. Daw, David S. Touretzky

This article addresses the relationship between long-term reward predictions and slow-timescale neural activity in temporal difference (TD) models of the dopamine system. Such models attempt to...

dopamine system inputs (2007)

Nathaniel D. Daw, David S. Touretzky

Operant behavior suggests attentional gating of

Semi-rational Models of Conditioning: The Case of Trial Order (2007)

Nathaniel D. Daw, Aaron C. Courville, Peter Dayan

Bayesian treatments of animal conditioning start from a generative model that specifies precisely a set of assumptions about the structure of the learning task. Optimal rules for learning are direct...

Semi-rational Models of Conditioning: The Case of Trial Order (2007)

Nathaniel D. Daw, Aaron C. Courville, Peter Dayan

Bayesian treatments of animal conditioning start from a generative model that specifies precisely a set of assumptions about the structure of the learning task. Optimal rules for learning are direct...

Psychopharmacology DOI 10.1007/s00213-006-0502-4 ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION Tonic dopamine: opportunity costs and the control of response vigor (2006)

Yael Niv, Nathaniel D. Daw, Daphna Joel, Peter Dayan, Y. Niv, N. D. Daw, ...

Rationale Dopamine neurotransmission has long been known to exert a powerful influence over the vigor, strength, or rate of responding. However, there exists no clear understanding of the...

Manuscript for “Recent Breakthroughs in Basal Ganglia Research, ” Nova Science Publishers 1 Actions, Policies, Values, and the Basal Ganglia (2005)

Nathaniel D. Daw, Yael Niv, Peter Dayan

The basal ganglia are widely believed to be involved in the learned selection of actions. Building on this idea, reinforcement learning (RL) theories of optimal control have had some success in...

Similarity and discrimination in classical conditioning: A latent variable account (2004)

Aaron C. Courville, Nathaniel D. Daw, David S. Touretzky

We propose a probabilistic, generative account of configural learning phenomena in classical conditioning. Configural learning experiments probe how animals discriminate and generalize between...

Similarity and discrimination in classical conditioning: A latent variable account (2004)

Aaron C. Courville, Nathaniel D. Daw, David S. Touretzky

We propose a probabilistic, generative account of configural learning phenomena in classical conditioning. Configural learning experiments probe how animals discriminate and generalize between...

Timing and partial observability in the dopamine system (2003)

Nathaniel D. Daw, Aaron C. Courville, David S. Touretzky

According to a series of influential models, dopamine (DA) neurons signal reward prediction error using a temporal-difference (TD) algorithm. We address a problem not convincingly solved in these...

Timing and partial observability in the dopamine system (2003)

Nathaniel D. Daw, Aaron C. Courville, David S. Touretzky

According to a series of influential models, dopamine (DA) neurons signal reward prediction error using a temporal-difference (TD) algorithm. We address a problem not convincingly solved in these...

Combining configural and TD learning on a robot (2002)

David S. Touretzky, Nathaniel D. Daw

We combine configural and temporal difference learning in a classical conditioning model. The model is able to solve the negative patterning problem, discriminate sequences of stimuli, and exhibit...

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Development and Learning, Cambridge, MA, June 12--15, 2002. (2002)

Dopamine And Inference, Nathaniel D. Daw

Temporal-di#erence learning (TD) models explain most responses of primate dopamine neurons in appetitive conditioning. But because existing models are based in the simple formal setting of Markov...

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Development and Learning, Cambridge, MA, June 12--15, 2002. (2002)

Dopamine And Inference, Nathaniel D. Daw, Aaron C. Courville, David S. Touretzky

Temporal-di#erence learning (TD) models explain most responses of primate dopamine neurons in appetitive conditioning. But because existing models are based in the simple formal setting of Markov...

Striatal Activity Underlies Novelty-Based Choice in Humans

Wittmann, Bianca C., Daw, Nathaniel D., Seymour, Ben, Dolan, Raymond J.

The desire to seek new and unfamiliar experiences is a fundamental behavioral tendency in humans and other species. In economic decision making, novelty seeking is often rational, insofar as...

A Dual Role for Prediction Error in Associative Learning

Friston, Karl J., Daw, Nathaniel D., McIntosh, Anthony R., Stephan, Klaas E.

Confronted with a rich sensory environment, the brain must learn statistical regularities across sensory domains to construct causal models of the world. Here, we used functional magnetic resonance...