Dorsal striatal dopamine integrates sensory and reward prediction errors to guide perceptual decisions
Matthias Fritsche, Chiara Toschi, Yuliia Shevchuk, Olena Didenko, Rathi Puliyadi, Antara Majumdar, Rafał Bogacz, Armin Lak
This study shows dopamine in the dorsal striatum encodes both sensory and reward prediction errors during perceptual decisions, with distinct but overlapping signals.
bioRxiv · Jan 2, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience