Peter Dayan
Peter Dayan · Science & Medicine
Theoretical neuroscientist of dopamine reward learning; Rumelhart Prize (2012)
1965, United Kingdom
United Kingdom · United States · Germany
Peter Dayan is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Theoretical neuroscientist of dopamine reward learning; Rumelhart Prize (2012)
Peter Dayan is a British theoretical neuroscientist who, with colleagues, proposed that dopamine signals encode a reward prediction error, linking machine reinforcement learning to brain reward systems; he co-developed the Q-learning framework and co-authored the textbook 'Theoretical Neuroscience'. He received the Rumelhart Prize in 2012 and directs a Max Planck Institute in Tübingen. He is documented as Jewish.
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Theoretical neuroscientist of dopamine reward learning; Rumelhart Prize (2012)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Rumelhart Prize
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