Ventral striatal astrocytes contribute to reinforcement learning Astrocytes influence synaptic plasticity and neuronal function through astrocytic calcium dynamics (ACD). However, astrocytes contribution to cognitive operations like reinforcement learning (RL) rema...

How do non-neuronal CNS cells called astrocytes contribute to cognition & computation?

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Headed by my students Julia Pai and Fatih Sogukpinar, also working with Hiratani, Pignatelli, Papouin, Frank, and Ching labs. This was a huge effort

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Now out in JEP: General, "How working memory and reinforcement learning interact when avoiding punishment and pursuing reward concurrently"

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Check out the paper here! fun collab between Pavlick and Frank labs led by Jake Russin on "in-context" vs "in-weight" learning in humans and neural nets www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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check out Jake Russin's new paper on how the interplay between in-context and in-weight learning in neural nets can explain tradeoffs in human learning!
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