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Revisiting the Actor-Critic System in Striatum During Decision Making
Revisiting the Actor-Critic System in Striatum During Decision Making
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202104840
- ISBN
- 9798297601062
- DDC
- 616
- 서명/저자
- Revisiting the Actor-Critic System in Striatum During Decision Making
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of California, Berkeley, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 109 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-04, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Wilbrecht, Linda.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약The actor-critic framework has provided a foundational model of reinforcement learning in biological systems. In one of the most popular version of the model, the dorsal striatum is thought to function as the "actor" implementing action selection, while the ventral striatum functions as the "critic" for credit assignment. While this model is highly successful, experimental evidence increasingly suggests that the computational and neural mechanisms underlying decision making may contain additional nuance or even extend beyond this classic framework. In this thesis, I present experimental and computational work that serves to refine our understanding of both the critic and the actor, based on recordings made in the striatal circuits of mice during decision making.In the first study, I focused on the critic. Here, I investigated whether dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens reflects Bayesian inference computations beyond simple temporal difference learning. Using fiber photometry to measure dopamine signals during a probabilistic switching task, I compared predictions from Bayesian inference models against standard reinforcement learning models. Model comparison revealed that both mouse behavior and nucleus accumbens dopamine signals were better explained by models incorporating Bayesian inference for hidden state estimation, suggesting that the "critic" system performs sophisticated probabilistic computations rather than simple iterative value updates.In the second study, I focused on the actor. Here, I examined how the dorsal striatum implements active choice rejection, a process that challenges traditional models of action selection. Using bilateral recordings from direct and indirect pathway neurons during a serial decision-making task (Restaurant Row), I discovered that active rejection decisions involve distinct opponency patterns compared to active accepting decisions. Remarkably, rejection choices showed significant ipsilateral suppression, while acceptance choices showed classic contralateral activation. Optogenetic manipulations confirmed the causal role of this asymmetric activity pattern, with unilateral suppression of ipsilateral direct pathway neurons specifically enhancing rejection of marginally valuable offers. To conclude, I will discuss how these findings might be used to revise and update the actor-critic framework. I propose that the neural model of the "critic" component be readily expanded to include the possibility of Bayesian inference mechanisms that enable rapid adaptation to environmental volatility through belief state representations. Then, I suggest that the neural model of the "actor" system can also be improved by including hemispheric opponency, while also accounting for hemispheric specialization in cost and benefit processing, when lateralized choice is being implemented. Together, these results demonstrate that biological decision making involves computational sophistication and circuit complexity that extends well beyond traditional reinforcement learning models, providing new insights into the neural basis of adaptive behavior and offering refined frameworks for understanding decision-making disorders.
- 일반주제명
- Neurosciences
- 일반주제명
- Bioinformatics
- 일반주제명
- Computer science
- 키워드
- Actor critic
- 키워드
- Basal ganglia
- 키워드
- Decision making
- 기타저자
- University of California, Berkeley Psychology
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-04B.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■590 ▼aSchool code: 0028.
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■650 4▼aComputer science
■653 ▼aActor critic
■653 ▼aBasal ganglia
■653 ▼aBayesian inference
■653 ▼aDecision making
■653 ▼aReinforcement learning
■653 ▼aStriatal circuits
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