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1. Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function

   Solving the Distal Reward Problem through Linkage of STDP and Dopamine Signaling

   Izhikevich · Cerebral Cortex · 2007

   A computer model of cortical spiking neurons, with dopamine-modulated spike-timing-dependent plasticity, is shown to solve the distal reward problem, where reward arrives seconds after the action.

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   1. UncheckedA model of cortical spiking neurons, with dopamine-modulated STDP, can link a reward arriving seconds late to the earlier firing patterns that caused it.“Here, we show how the conundrum is resolved by a model network of cortical spiking neurons with spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) modulated by dopamine (DA). Although STDP is triggered by nearly coincident firing patterns on a millisecond timescale, slow kinetics of subsequent synaptic plast…”