Prominent in these are actor-critic models of basal ganglia functioning which build on the strong resemblance between dopamine neuron activity and the temporal difference prediction ... and the extent ...

Teaching/research interests: Anatomy and physiology of the visual system (VIS 613), optics for vision science (VIS 610), visual psychophysics and perception (VS 122, VS 211), graduate educational ...

Neuroscientists use cellular and molecular biology, anatomy and physiology, human behavior and cognition, and other disciplines, to map the brain at a mechanistic level. Humans have an estimated ...