Prolonged dopamine signalling in striatum signals proximity and value of distant rewards

Predictions about future rewarding events have a powerful influence on behaviour. The phasic spike activity of dopamine-containing neurons, and corresponding dopamine transients in the striatum, are thought to underlie these predictions, encoding positive and negative reward prediction errors. Howev...

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Main Authors: Howe, Mark William, Sandberg, Stefan G., Phillips, Paul E. M., Graybiel, Ann M., Tierney, Patrick
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/91049
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2384-089X
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4326-7720