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Roles of dopamine neurons in mediating the prediction error in aversive learning in insects.
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- The exploration of consciousness in insects.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Independent operations of appetitive and aversive conditioning systems lead to simultaneous production of conflicting memories in an insect.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Beyond prediction error: 25 years of modeling the associations formed in the insect mushroom body.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2024Review
- Prediction error drives associative learning and conditioned behavior in a spiking model of Drosophila larva.iScience · 2024Article
- Spontaneous recovery from overexpectation in an insect.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Conditioned taste aversion in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- A zona incerta-basomedial amygdala circuit modulates aversive expectation in emotional stress-induced aversive learning deficits.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2022Article
- What Is Learned in Pavlovian Conditioning in Crickets? Revisiting the S-S and S-R Learning Theories.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Review
- Insects Provide Unique Systems to Investigate How Early-Life Experience Alters the Brain and Behavior.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Review
- Development of behavioural automaticity by extended Pavlovian training in an insect.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Application of a Prediction Error Theory to Pavlovian Conditioning in an Insect.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
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Abstract
In associative learning in mammals, it is widely accepted that the discrepancy, or error, between actual and predicted reward determines whether learning occurs. The prediction error theory has been proposed to account for the finding of a blocking phenomenon, in which pairing of a stimulus X with an unconditioned stimulus (US) could block subsequent association of a second stimulus Y to the US when the two stimuli were paired in compound with the same US. Evidence for this theory, however, has been imperfect since blocking can also be accounted for by competitive theories. We recently reported blocking in classical conditioning of an odor with water reward in crickets. We also reported an "auto-blocking" phenomenon in appetitive learning, which supported the prediction error theory and rejected alternative theories. The presence of auto-blocking also suggested that octopamine neurons mediate reward prediction error signals. Here we show that blocking and auto-blocking occur in aversive learning to associate an odor with salt water (US) in crickets, and our results suggest that dopamine neurons mediate aversive prediction error signals. We conclude that the prediction error theory is applicable to both appetitive learning and aversive learning in insects.
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