# Peter Dayan
**Domain:** Computational Neuroscience / Machine Learning
**Doc Type:** Person
**Maturity:** Developed
**Related:** [[Reward Prediction Error]], [[Wolfram Schultz]], [[P. Read Montague]], [[Temporal-Difference Learning]], [[Schedule and Loop]]
## Definition
Peter Dayan is a computational neuroscientist who helped connect dopamine responses to temporal-difference models of learning.
## Schedule–Loop Context
This connection makes the merger explicit: a behavioral learning problem and a control-theoretic update rule describe the same prediction discrepancy at different levels.
## Backlinks
- [[Schedule and Loop]]
- [[articles/Schedule and Loop|Schedule and Loop]]
- [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]]