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SUBMITTER: Charlesworth JD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3045469 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Charlesworth Jonathan D JD Tumer Evren C EC Warren Timothy L TL Brainard Michael S MS
Nature neuroscience 20110130 3
Reinforcement signals indicating success or failure are known to alter the probability of selecting between distinct actions. However, successful performance of many motor skills, such as speech articulation, also requires learning behavioral trajectories that vary continuously over time. Here, we investigated how temporally discrete reinforcement signals shape a continuous behavioral trajectory, the fundamental frequency of adult Bengalese finch song. We provided reinforcement contingent on fun ...[more]