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Learning from a Neuroscience Perspective

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This entry gives an overview of learning from a neuroscience perspective by highlighting some key chronological findings in neuroscience that have given rise to various theories of learning and have particularly inspired major developments in artificial intelligence.

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Learning has been a central question in psychology and neuroscience, spanning various theories and explanations from the behavioral level to the neuronal scale. Even though many of these theories are strengthened by experimental evidence, understanding how learning is performed by the brain is still an open problem and subject of numerous ongoing research efforts. Nevertheless, the neuroscience perspective on learning has heavily influenced artificial intelligence and machine learning, hallmarked by early instances such as the Perceptron, to the more recent advent of...

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Babadi, B. (2020). Learning from a Neuroscience Perspective. In: Computer Vision. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03243-2_823-1

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