Dopamine-associated cached values are not sufficient as the basis for action selection.
Phasic dopamine transmission is posited to act as a critical teaching signal that updates the stored (or "cached") values assigned to reward-predictive stimuli and actions. It is widely hypothesized that these cached values determine the selection among multiple courses of action, a premis...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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National Academy of Sciences
2014
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