TY - GEN
T1 - A neurocomputational model of nicotine addiction based on reinforcement learning
AU - Metin, Selin
AU - Serap Şengör, Neslihan
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Continuous exposure to nicotine causes behavioral choice to be modified by dopamine to become rigid, resulting in addiction. In this work, a computational model for nicotine addiction is proposed and the proposed model captures the effect of continuous nicotine exposure in becoming addict through reinforcement learning. The computational model is composed of three subsystems each corresponding to neural substrates taking part in nicotine addiction and these subsystems are realized by nonlinear dynamical systems. Even though the model is sufficient in acquiring addiction, it needs to be further developed to give a better explanation for the process responsible in turning a random choice into a compulsive behavior.
AB - Continuous exposure to nicotine causes behavioral choice to be modified by dopamine to become rigid, resulting in addiction. In this work, a computational model for nicotine addiction is proposed and the proposed model captures the effect of continuous nicotine exposure in becoming addict through reinforcement learning. The computational model is composed of three subsystems each corresponding to neural substrates taking part in nicotine addiction and these subsystems are realized by nonlinear dynamical systems. Even though the model is sufficient in acquiring addiction, it needs to be further developed to give a better explanation for the process responsible in turning a random choice into a compulsive behavior.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78049403194&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-15822-3_30
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-15822-3_30
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78049403194
SN - 3642158218
SN - 9783642158216
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 228
EP - 233
BT - Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2010 - 20th International Conference, Proceedings
T2 - 20th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2010
Y2 - 15 September 2010 through 18 September 2010
ER -