The formation of habits: A computational model mixing reinforcement learning and Hebbian learning

Meropi Topalidou (1, 2, 3) , Camille Piron (1) , Daisuke Kaise (1) , Thomas Boraud (1) , Nicolas P. Rougier (1, 2, 3)

1 IMN - Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives [Bordeaux]
2 LaBRI - Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique
3 Mnemosyne - Mnemonic Synergy

If basal ganglia are widely accepted to participate in the high-level cognitive function of decision-making, their role is less clear regarding the formation of habits. One of the hardest problem is to understand how goal-directed actions are transformed into habitual responses, or, said differently, how an animal can shift from an action-outcome (A-O) system to a stimulus-response (S-R) one while keeping a consistent behaviour?

Mots clés: Habits; Decision Making; Reinforcement Learning; Hebbian learning

Domaines: Informatique [cs]; Neurosciences [q-bio.NC]

Meropi Topalidou, Camille Piron, Daisuke Kaise, Thomas Boraud, Nicolas P. Rougier. The formation of habits: A computational model mixing reinforcement learning and Hebbian learning. The Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM 2015), Jun 2015, Edmonton, Canada. ⟨hal-01156484⟩