Coexistence of Reward and Unsupervised Learning During the Operant Conditioning of Neural Firing Rates

• Robert R. Kerr ,

  * E-mail: r.kerr@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

  Affiliations NeuroEngineering Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Centre for Neural Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, NICTA, Victoria Research Lab, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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• David B. Grayden,

  Affiliations NeuroEngineering Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Centre for Neural Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, NICTA, Victoria Research Lab, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Bionics Institute, Melbourne, Australia

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• Doreen A. Thomas,

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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• Matthieu Gilson,

  Affiliations NeuroEngineering Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Centre for Neural Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Laboratory for Neural Circuit Theory, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan

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• Anthony N. Burkitt

  Affiliations NeuroEngineering Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Centre for Neural Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, NICTA, Victoria Research Lab, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Bionics Institute, Melbourne, Australia

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