Systems neuroscience of curiosity

Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

Volodymyr Mnih, Koray Kavukcuoglu, David Silver et al. · Nature · 2015 · 28.8K citations

Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, Deep Reinforcement Learning +3

Conflict monitoring versus selection-for-action in anterior cingulate cortex

Matthew Botvinick, Leigh E. Nystrom, Kate Fissell et al. · Nature · 1999 · 2.1K citations

Cognitive Science, Behavioral Neuroscience, Cortical Remodeling +8

Anticipation and the Valuation of Delayed Consumption

George Loewenstein · The Economic Journal · 1987 · 1.3K citations

Delayed Consumption, Consumer Economics, Applied Economics +18

A hierarchy of intrinsic timescales across primate cortex

John D. Murray, Alberto Bernacchia, David J. Freedman et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2014 · 1.1K citations · Full text

Cognitive Science, Behavioral Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience +9

Reward-Motivated Learning: Mesolimbic Activation Precedes Memory Formation

R. Alison Adcock, Arul Thangavel, Susan Whitfield‐Gabrieli et al. · Neuron · 2006 · 1K citations · Full text

Cognitive Science, Reward-motivated Learning, Affective Neuroscience +8