NeuroscienceJournal of NeurosciencePeer-reviewed
Anticipation of appetitive operant action induces sustained dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens
Jessica N Goedhoop, Tara Arbab, Ingo Willuhn
This study compares Pavlovian and operant conditioning in rats to show that operant action anticipation induces sustained dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens, distinct from reward prediction error signals.
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