I did an M.SC in CogSci a long way back (1998) and funnily enough my thesis area was very very close to this (reinforcement learning with different network topo

I did an M.SC in CogSci a long way back (1998) and funnily enough my thesis area was very very close to this (reinforcement learning with different network topologies). The core area is pretty simple stuff to be honest. Obviously DeepMind are completely next-level but you can get pretty good results with basic understanding...