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The Contribution of the Striatum to Cortical Function

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In the struggle for survival the ability to learn to associate temporally contiguous events is clearly advantageous. By forming such associations it becomes possible to reconstruct the external world from the fragments of information impinging on the senses. Equally so, it is important to be able to learn from the effects of actions directed outward upon the external world. Only then does it becomes possible to learn how to act upon the world in order to obtain a desired result. Thus, there appear to be at least two different types of learning. The distinction between these two types of learning is logical as well as psychological. This has been pointed out in various terms by a number of authors (Hirsh 1974; Mishkin et al. 1984; Miller 1988).

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    Valentino Braitenberg

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Wickens, J. (1992). The Contribution of the Striatum to Cortical Function. In: Aertsen, A., Braitenberg, V. (eds) Information Processing in the Cortex. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49967-8_18

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