Multi-timescale reinforcement learning in the brain
Paul Masset, Pablo Tano, HyungGoo R. Kim, Athar N. Malik, Alexandre Pouget, Naoshige Uchida
This paper shows that dopamine neurons in mice use multiple time scales to encode reward prediction errors, suggesting cell-specific temporal discounting and implications for reinforcement learning algorithms.
Nature · Jun 4, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience