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SUBMITTER: Keramati M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4270100 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Keramati Mehdi M Gutkin Boris B
eLife 20141202
Efficient regulation of internal homeostasis and defending it against perturbations requires adaptive behavioral strategies. However, the computational principles mediating the interaction between homeostatic and associative learning processes remain undefined. Here we use a definition of primary rewards, as outcomes fulfilling physiological needs, to build a normative theory showing how learning motivated behaviors may be modulated by internal states. Within this framework, we mathematically pr ...[more]