Sam Gershman, PhD

Professor, Dept of Psychology and Center for Brain Science
Harvard University

The Riddle of Dopamine

A widely accepted story about dopamine is that it reports reward prediction errors. The real story is more complicated. Some aspects of dopamine that appear incompatible with the prediction error hypothesis are in fact perfectly compatible when we look through the right theoretical lens. Other aspects of dopamine force us to rethink its computational function more fundamentally.

Host Information:

Wen Guo: [email protected]
Eivinas Butkus: [email protected]

The Columbia Neuroscience Seminar series is a collaborative effort of Columbia's Zuckerman Institute, the Department of Neuroscience, the Doctoral Program in Neurobiology and Behavior and the Columbia Translational Neuroscience Initiative, and with support from the Kavli Institute for Brain Science.