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TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES
Volume 17, Issue 9, Pages 430-431Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.06.010
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [T32GM007753, T32 GM007753] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [5R01MH095953, R01 MH095953, R01 MH101207, T32 MH020017, F30 MH100729] Funding Source: Medline
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Dopamine neurons are thought to promote learning by signaling prediction errors, that is, the difference between actual and expected outcomes. Whether these signals are sufficient for associative learning, however, remains untested. A recent study used optogenetics in a classic behavioral paradigm to confirm the role of dopamine prediction errors in learning.
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