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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Main Authors: Papageorgiou, GK, Baudonnat, M, Cucca, F, Walton, ME
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Cell Press 2016