Dopamine neurons drive basal forebrain reward prediction in milliseconds
You-Jhe Jhong, Ming-Ching Chiang, Adriane Guillaumin, Cheng-Yen Cheng, Mu-En Kuo, Cheng-Ze Lee, Alessandro Scaglione, François E. Georges, Shih‐Chieh Lin
The paper shows that dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area causally drive basal forebrain bursting neurons to propagate reward prediction signals on a millisecond timescale.
bioRxiv · Oct 2, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience