Dopamine Encodes Retrospective Temporal Information in a Context-Independent Manner

The dopamine system responds to reward-predictive cues to reflect a prospective estimation of reward value, although its role in encoding retrospective reward-related information is unclear. We report that cue-evoked dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens core encodes the time elapsed since the p...

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Main Authors: Kaitlyn M. Fonzi, Merridee J. Lefner, Paul E.M. Phillips, Matthew J. Wanat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-08-01
Series:Cell Reports
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124717310690