Stimulus-dependent adjustment of reward prediction error in the midbrain.

Previous reports have described that neural activities in midbrain dopamine areas are sensitive to unexpected reward delivery and omission. These activities are correlated with reward prediction error in reinforcement learning models, the difference between predicted reward values and the obtained r...

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Main Authors: Hiromasa Takemura, Kazuyuki Samejima, Rufin Vogels, Masamichi Sakagami, Jiro Okuda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3229557?pdf=render