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Zilong Gao

Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeORCID 0000-0003-2709-6287Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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NeurosciencebioRxivPreprintJan 13, 2026

Dopamine Accumulation Dynamics Control Time Perception

Tiezhan Lu, Junyou Sun, Yiping Lu…·Wenzhi Sun

The paper investigates how dopamine accumulation dynamics influence time perception in mice, finding that temporal accumulation rates, not absolute levels, determine time estimation.

DOI 10.64898/2026.01.13.699158

mouseelectronic health records

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NeuroscienceScience AdvancesPeer-reviewedDec 1, 2021

The Neural Basis of Delayed Gratification

Zilong Gao, Hanqing Wang, Chen Lu…·Wenzhi Sun

This study trains mice to perform a delayed gratification task and shows that VTA dopamine neuron activity increases during waiting, with reinforcement learning modeling supporting the role of sustained dopaminergic signals in delaying gratification.

24 citations

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