Striatal dopamine explains novelty-induced behavioral dynamics and individual variability in threat prediction
Korleki Akiti, Iku Tsutsui‐Kimura, Yudi Xie, Alexander Mathis, Jeffrey E. Markowitz, Rockwell Anyoha, Sandeep Robert Datta, Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis, Naoshige Uchida, Mitsuko Watabe‐Uchida
The paper uses machine learning to analyze novelty-induced behaviors and finds that dopamine in the striatum correlates with individual variability and is explained by a reinforcement learning model of threat prediction.
Neuron · Sep 20, 2022Peer-reviewedNeuroscience