Hannah M. Batchelor

The paper uses a transformer model to analyze cholinergic and calcium signaling in mice during learning, finding spatiotemporal plasticity in frontal cortical subnetworks.

The paper shows that acetylcholine in the basolateral amygdala increases during reward-related events and enhances learning of cue-reward associations in mice.

This study shows that dopamine transients in learning contexts do not create cached value but instead support valueless associative learning.