Dopamine signals mimic reward prediction errors

Geoffrey Schoenbaum; Guillem R Esber; Mihaela D Iordanova

doi:10.1038/nn.3448

Dopamine signals mimic reward prediction errors

Nat Neurosci. 2013 Jul;16(7):777-9. doi: 10.1038/nn.3448.

Authors

Geoffrey Schoenbaum¹, Guillem R Esber, Mihaela D Iordanova

Affiliation

¹ Behavioral Neuroscience Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Intramural Research Branch, US National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. geoffrey.schoenbaum@nih.gov

PMID: 23799468
PMCID: PMC4116677
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3448

Abstract

Modern theories of associative learning center on a prediction error. A study finds that artificial activation of dopamine neurons can substitute for missing reward prediction errors to rescue blocked learning.

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Association Learning / physiology*
Conditioning, Operant / physiology*
Dopaminergic Neurons / physiology*
Female
Ventral Tegmental Area / cytology*

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