Tamping Ramping: Algorithmic, Implementational, and Computational Explanations of Phasic Dopamine Signals in the Accumbens.

Substantial evidence suggests that the phasic activity of dopamine neurons represents reinforcement learning's temporal difference prediction error. However, recent reports of ramp-like increases in dopamine concentration in the striatum when animals are about to act, or are about to reach rewa...

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Main Authors: Kevin Lloyd, Peter Dayan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-12-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4689534?pdf=render