• DOI:10.1016/j.neuron.2005.04.026
Corpus ID: 15980355

Uncertainty, Neuromodulation, and Attention

@article{Yu2005UncertaintyNA,
  title={Uncertainty, Neuromodulation, and Attention},
  author={A. Yu and P. Dayan},
  journal={Neuron},
  year={2005},
  volume={46},
  pages={681-692}
}

A. Yu, P. Dayan

Published 2005

Medicine, Psychology

Neuron

Uncertainty in various forms plagues our interactions with the environment. In a Bayesian statistical framework, optimal inference and prediction, based on unreliable observations in changing contexts, require the representation and manipulation of different forms of uncertainty. We propose that the neuromodulators acetylcholine and norepinephrine play a major role in the brain's implementation of these uncertainty computations. Acetylcholine signals expected uncertainty, coming from known… CONTINUE READING

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