Dopamine neurons of the VTA encode active conspecific interaction and promote social learning through social reward prediction error.
Clément Solié, Benôıt Girard, Beatrice Righetti, Malika Tapparel, Camilla Bellone
The paper shows VTA dopamine neurons encode social reward prediction error during conspecific interactions and drive social reinforcement learning.
Nature Neuroscience · Dec 2, 2021Peer-reviewedNeuroscience