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CELL
Volume 184, Issue 10, Pages 2733-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.03.046
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- HHMI Hanna Gray Fellowship
- NIH [R01MH080066]
- NSF [1460604]
- Carney Institute for Brain Sciences at Brown University
- Dean's office at Brown University
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Evidence suggests that dopamine plays a role in shaping learning by encoding reward prediction errors, with tailored dynamics for striatal targets based on regional specialization. Dopamine activity shows wave-like spatiotemporal patterns in the dorsal striatum, propagating between subregions based on task demands.
Significant evidence supports the view that dopamine shapes learning by encoding reward prediction errors. However, it is unknown whether striatal targets receive tailored dopamine dynamics based on regional functional specialization. Here, we report wave-like spatiotemporal activity patterns in dopamine axons and release across the dorsal striatum. These waves switch between activational motifs and organize dopamine transients into localized clusters within functionally related striatal subregions. Notably, wave trajectories were tailored to task demands, propagating from dorsomedial to dorsolateral striatum when rewards are contingent on animal behavior and in the opponent direction when rewards are independent of behavioral responses. We propose a computational architecture in which striatal dopamine waves are sculpted by inference about agency and provide a mechanism to direct credit assignment to specialized striatal subregions. Supporting model predictions, dorsomedial dopamine activity during reward-pursuit signaled the extent of instrumental control and interacted with reward waves to predict future behavioral adjustments.
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