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I can partly understand some this based on an EE101-level control theory, a High School level model of how neurons work, and 3blue1brown's intro to neural nets[

I can partly understand some this based on an EE101-level control theory, a High School level model of how neurons work, and 3blue1brown's intro to neural nets[1]. However, I have a strong personal interest in developing a much deeper understanding of dopamine neurons and their role in Executive Function. Can anyone recommend a good curriculum which can take a random web developer from "Knows what a myelinated axon, a sigmoid function, and a feedback loop are" to having a solid enough background to dive into the research on this? [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk

scribu 7y ago
Well, there's a major called Behavioral Neuroscience [1], which sounds like what you're after. Or you could do a whole undergraduate program just on neuroanatomy. [2] There's also this subfield called Cognitive Neuroscience [3] (I'm not an expert either.) [1] https://psychology.nova.edu/undergraduate/behavioral-neuroscience/curriculum.html https://psychology.nova.edu/undergraduate/behavioral-neurosc... [2] https://neuro.ucr.edu/courses/nrsc200a https://neuro.ucr.edu/courses/nrsc200a [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_neuroscience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_neuroscience
westoncb 7y ago
Kind of an odd title and book, but I think it may do a good job of what you're looking for: "Principles of Neural Design": https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Neural-Design-MIT-Press/dp/0262534681/ https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Neural-Design-MIT-Press/dp...
- afarrell 7y ago
  That looks like exactly the sort of thing I'm after.
shmageggy 7y ago
Others mentioned the neural side, but I think that's ancillary to the main idea of the paper which is about RL. David Silver's lectures on YouTube are excellent: http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/d.silver/web/Teaching.html http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/d.silver/web/Teaching.html

scribu 7y ago

Well, there's a major called Behavioral Neuroscience [1], which sounds like what you're after. Or you could do a whole undergraduate program just on neuroanatomy. [2] There's also this subfield called Cognitive Neuroscience [3] (I'm not an expert either.) [1] https://psychology.nova.edu/undergraduate/behavioral-neuroscience/curriculum.html https://psychology.nova.edu/undergraduate/behavioral-neurosc... [2] https://neuro.ucr.edu/courses/nrsc200a https://neuro.ucr.edu/courses/nrsc200a [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_neuroscience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_neuroscience

westoncb 7y ago

Kind of an odd title and book, but I think it may do a good job of what you're looking for: "Principles of Neural Design": https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Neural-Design-MIT-Press/dp/0262534681/ https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Neural-Design-MIT-Press/dp...

afarrell 7y ago
That looks like exactly the sort of thing I'm after.

shmageggy 7y ago

Others mentioned the neural side, but I think that's ancillary to the main idea of the paper which is about RL. David Silver's lectures on YouTube are excellent: http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/d.silver/web/Teaching.html http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/d.silver/web/Teaching.html