Slides for a talk I gave for a talk at the Cognition, Perception and Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquium, Psychology Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
1. Procedural Skill Unlearning
Matthew J. Crossley
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
University of California, Santa Barbara, 93106
2. • Build and test a computational cognitive
neuroscience (CCN) model of procedural skill
learning and unlearning
• CCN models predict neurobiology and behavior
Talk Goals
8. Procedural Skills in the Lab
• Appetitive Instrumental Conditioning
• II Category Learning
9. Appealing Choices
• Much is known about the relevant
neurobiology for each
• Each has investigated unlearning
10. Procedural Skills Depend on the
Basal Ganglia
• Basal ganglia are a
collection of subcortical
nuclei
• Interconnects with
cortex in well defined
circuits
• Striatum is a major
input structure
19. The TANs are of Particular Interest
• Tonically active and pause to excitatory input
• Presynaptically inhibit cortical input to MSNs
• Get major input from CM-Pf
• Learn to pause to stimuli that predict reward
(requires dopamine)
43. Model Accounts for Electrophysiological
Recordings from TANs
Ashby and Crossley (2011)
44. Model Accounts for Electrophysiological
Recordings from MSNs
Ashby and Crossley (2011)
45. Model Accounts for Basic Instrumental
Conditioning Behavior
Ashby and Crossley (2011)
Fast reacquisition is evidence that extinction
did not erase initial learning
51. Renewal - Basic Design
Condition
Phase
ABA AAB ABC
Acquisition Environment A Environment A Environment A
Extinction Environment B Environment A Environment B
Renewal
(Extinction)
Environment A Environment B Environment C
Bouton et al. (2011)
57. Instrumental Conditioning Summary
• The TANs protect learning at CTX-MSN synapses.
• Manipulations that keep the TANs paused during
extinction leave learning at the CTX-MSN synapse
subject to change.
62. Many Qualitative Differences
Between RB and II
RB II
Unsupervised learning Yes No
Observational learning Yes No
Dual-task interference Yes No
Time needed to process
feedback
Yes No
Interference from button
switch
No Yes
Interference from Feedback
Delay
No Yes
II Category Learning is a Procedural Skill
63. The Basic Task
Exemplars are randomly
selected from the distribution
and presented one at a time
A
64. General Experiment Design
Crossley, Maddox & Ashby (in prep)
Condition
Phase
Active Condition
Meta-Learning
Condition
Acquisition True Feedback
Extinction
Active Feedback
Manipulation
Reacquisition True Feedback
65. General Experiment Design
Crossley, Maddox & Ashby (in prep)
Condition
Phase
Active Condition
Meta-Learning
Condition
Acquisition True Feedback True Feedback
Extinction
Active Feedback
Manipulation
Active Feedback
Manipulation
Reacquisition True Feedback
True Feedback
Rotated Categories
66. II Category-Unlearning
Rotation of this kind massively interferes with category learning
performance (Maddox, Glass, O’Brien, Filoteo & Ashby, 2010)
74. Problem with RPE DA Model
• Random feedback prevents reward from becoming
predicted
• TANs don’t stop pausing during extinction
• CTX-MSN synapses remain vulnerable to unlearning
75. • DA scaled by response-feedback
contingency
• Correlation between response
confidence and feedback history
A New Dopamine Model
77. DA model suggests the important
factor to keep the TANs paused is
response-feedback contingency
Using the Model to Develop an Effective Unlearning Protocol
91. Summary
• TANs protect cortical-striatal synapses during
periods when reward delivery is not contingent on
behavior
• RPE may not be sufficient to capture DA behavior
under noisy feedback conditions
• Key to unlearning may be to simulate a TAN pause
(e.g., with drugs) or trick the TANs into pausing
(e.g., with partial reliable feedback) during the
unlearning process