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.

For decades, most neuroscientists thought that one area of the brain, the basal ganglia, was responsible for action selection and another area, the motor cortex, for action specification. Now, using a ...