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Brain-like neural dynamics for behavioral control develop through reinforcement learning

During development, neural circuits are shaped continuously as we learn to control our bodies. The ultimate goal of this process is to produce neural dynamics that enable the rich repertoire of behavi...

A long-standing question in psych and neuro is what serves as a dominant "teaching signal" over which to optimize when learning new skills. Instead of approaching this behaviourally, we compared monkey neural recordings to modelling predictions under the same objective function using MotorNet.