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Goal-Directed Decision Making with Spiking Neurons

Johannes Friedrich and Máté Lengyel
Journal of Neuroscience 3 February 2016, 36 (5) 1529-1546; https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2854-15.2016
Johannes Friedrich
1Computational and Biological Learning Laboratory, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, United Kingdom, and
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Máté Lengyel
1Computational and Biological Learning Laboratory, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, United Kingdom, and
2Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University, Budapest 1051, Hungary
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2854-15.2016
PubMed 
26843636
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History 
  • Received July 29, 2015
  • Revision received October 14, 2015
  • Accepted November 23, 2015
  • First published February 3, 2016.
  • Version of record published February 3, 2016.
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Copyright © 2016 the authors 0270-6474/16/361529-18$15.00/0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International,which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.

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  1. Johannes Friedrich1 and
  2. Máté Lengyel1,2
  1. 1Computational and Biological Learning Laboratory, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, United Kingdom, and
  2. 2Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University, Budapest 1051, Hungary
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Author contributions

  1. Author contributions: J.F. and M.L. designed research; J.F. performed research; J.F. analyzed data; J.F. and M.L. wrote the paper.

Disclosures

    • Received July 29, 2015.
    • Revision received October 14, 2015.
    • Accepted November 23, 2015.
  • This work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (Grant PBBEP3_146112 to J.F.) and the Wellcome Trust (J.F. and M.L.).

  • The authors declare no competing financial interests.

  • Correspondence should be addressed to Johannes Friedrich, Department of Statistics and Grossman Center for the Statistics of Mind, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027. j.friedrich{at}columbia.edu

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