Mesolimbic dopamine encodes prediction errors in a state-dependent manner
Mesolimbic dopamine encodes the benefits of a course of action. However, the value of an appetitive reward depends strongly on an animal’s current state. To investigate the relationship between dopamine, value, and physiological state, we monitored sub-second dopamine release in the nucleus accumben...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Cell Press
2016
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