and the extent to which models of the actor take into account known basal ganglia anatomy and physiology. To complement the efforts to relate basal ganglia mechanisms to reinforcement learning, we ...

Erich Jarvis believes that birds' basal ganglia are also involved in memory ... who did the first studies of bird brain anatomy in the 19th century, to the current view of the bird brain.

Using a novel system, researchers found that a part of the basal ganglia called the striatum is not involved in action selection as previously thought. Instead, the striatum and the motor cortex work ...