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Christopher J Burke1, Philippe N Tobler1
1Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research, Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Blumlisalpstrasse 10, 8006 Zurich, Switzerland.
Abstract:
Midbrain dopamine neurons encode reward prediction errors. In this issue of Neuron, Takahashi et al. (2016) show that the ventral striatum provides dopamine neurons with prediction information specific to the timing, but not the quantity, of reward, suggesting a surprisingly nuanced neural implementation of reward prediction errors.
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