Dissociable cost and benefit encoding of future rewards by mesolimbic dopamine.
Reward-predicting cues evoke activity in midbrain dopamine neurons that encodes fundamental attributes of economic value, including reward magnitude, delay and uncertainty. We found that dopamine release in rat nucleus accumbens encodes anticipated benefits, but not effort-based response costs unles...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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