nathaniel daw

photo courtesy of adam fields
affiliation: assistant professor
neural science
psychology
center for neuroeconomics
affiliate, computer science
new york university
email: daw [at] cns . nyu . edu
office: 279 meyer hall
212-998-2104
address: center for neural science
new york university
4 washington place, room 809
new york ny 10003

journal
articles

(full cv here)
decision theory, reinforcement learning, and the brain
p dayan / nd daw
cognitive affective and behavioral neuroscience 8:429-453 (2008)
striatal activity underlies novelty-based choice in humans
bc wittmann / nd daw / b seymour / rj dolan
neuron 58:967-973 (2008)
a dual role for prediction error in associative learning
he den ouden / kj friston / nd daw / ar mcintosh / ke stephan
cerebral cortex (epub ahead of print 2008)
reinforcement learning signals in the human striatum distinguish learners from non-learners during reward-based decision making
supplemental material
t schonberg / nd daw / d joel / jp o'doherty
journal of neuroscience 27:12860-12867 (2007)
differential encoding of losses and gains in the human striatum
b seymour / nd daw / p dayan / t singer / r dolan
journal of neuroscience: 27:4826-4831 (2007)
tonic dopamine: opportunity costs and the control of response vigor
y niv / nd daw / d joel / p dayan
psychopharmacology 191:507-520 (2007)
cortical substrates for exploratory decisions in humans
supplemental material / news and views (d lee)
nd daw / jp o'doherty / b seymour / p dayan / rj dolan
nature 441:876-879 (2006)
the misbehavior of value and the discipline of the will
p dayan / y niv / b seymour / nd daw
neural networks 19:1153-1160 (2006)
bayesian theories of conditioning in a changing world
ac courville / nd daw / ds touretzky
trends in cognitive sciences 10:294-300 (2006)
representation and timing in theories of the dopamine system
nd daw / ac courville / ds touretzky
neural computation 18:1637-1677 (2006)
uncertainty-based competition between prefrontal and dorsolateral striatal systems for behavioral control
supplemental material
nd daw / y niv / p dayan
nature neuroscience 8:1704-1711 (2005)
a computational substrate for incentive salience
sm mcclure / nd daw / pr montague
trends in neurosciences 26:423-428 (2003)
long-term reward prediction in TD models of the dopamine system
nd daw / ds touretzky
neural computation 14:2567-2583 (2002)
opponent interactions between serotonin and dopamine
nd daw / s kakade / p dayan
neural networks 15:603-616 (2002)
local analysis of behavior in the adjusting delay task for assessing choice of delayed reinforcement
r cardinal / nd daw / tw robbins / bj everitt
neural networks 15:617-634 (2002)
conference
articles
the pigeon as particle filter
nd daw / ac courville
nips 20 (2007)
how fast to work: response vigor, motivation and tonic dopamine
y niv / nd daw / p dayan
nips 18 (2005)
similarity and discrimination in classical conditioning: a latent variable account
ac courville / nd daw / ds touretzky
nips 17:313-320 (2004)
model uncertainty in classical conditioning
ac courville / nd daw / gj gordon / ds touretzky
nips 16:977-984 (2003)
timing and partial observability in the dopamine system
nd daw / ac courville / ds touretzky
nips 15:99-106 (2002)
dopamine and inference about timing
nd daw / ac courville / ds touretzky
second icdl 271-276 (2002)
combining configural and td learning on a robot
ds touretzky / nd daw / ej tira-thompson
second icdl 271-276 (2002)
operant behavior suggests attentional gating of dopamine system inputs
nd daw / ds touretzky
neurocomputing 38-40:1161-1167 (2001)
behavioral results suggest an average reward TD model of dopamine function
nd daw / ds touretzky
neurocomputing 32:679-684 (2000)
reviews;
commentary;
chapters;
miscellany
the cognitive neuroscience of motivation and learning
nd daw / ds shohamy
social cognition 26:593-620 (2008)
multiple forms of value learning and the function of dopamine
bw balleine / nd daw / jp o'doherty
chapter for "neuroeconomics: decision making and the brain," glimcher / camerer / fehr / poldrack, eds., academic press (2008)
dopamine: at the intersection of reward and action
nd daw
nature neuroscience (news and views for roesch et al 2007) 10:1505-1507 (2007)
semi-rational models: the case of trial order
nd daw / ac courville / p dayan
chapter for "the probabilistic mind," chater & oaksford, eds., oxford (2008)
choice values
y niv / nd daw / p dayan
nature neuroscience (news and views for morris et al 2006) 9:987-988 (2006)
the computational neurobiology of learning and reward
nd daw / k doya
current opinion in neurobiology 16:199-204 (2006)
matchmaking
nd daw / p dayan
science (perspective for sugrue et al 2004) 304:1753-1754 (2004)
theoretical and computational neuroscience: learning, action, inference and neuromodulation
p dayan / nd daw / y niv
chapter for "new encyclopedia of neuroscience," l squire et al, eds., elsevier (in press)
actions, values, policies and the basal ganglia
nd daw / y niv / p dayan
chapter for "recent breakthroughts in basal ganglia research," e bezard, ed., nova science publishers, pp. 111-130 (2006)
reinforcement learning models of the dopamine system and their behavioral implications
nd daw
phd thesis, cmu dept of computer science (2003)