3 papers
cs.NE2026
From Optimal Policies to Individual Differences: Rethinking Reinforcement Learning for Biology
Patrick Govoni, Palina Bartashevich, Clémence Bergerot +3
Reinforcement learning (RL) is primarily known as a computational method for optimizing control tasks, but it is increasingly used to explain biological behavior. While RL successf…
cs.NE2026
Social-spatial dependencies for learning visual navigation
Patrick Govoni, Pawel Romanczuk
Navigation for social organisms rarely is a fully independent activity. Group structure and dynamics, as well as embodied interactions, critically influence useful behavior. Indivi…
cs.NE2025
Visuospatial navigation from the bottom-up: without vestibular integration, distance prediction, or maps
Patrick Govoni, Pawel Romanczuk
Navigation is believed to be controlled by at least two partially dissociable systems in the brain. The cognitive map informs an organism of its location and bearing, updated by in…