ReviewThe Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry2021
Dopamine, Prediction Error and Beyond.
Review in The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.
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- L-DOPA and oxytocin influence the neural correlates of performance monitoring for self and others.Psychopharmacology · 2024Trial
- Liraglutide restores impaired associative learning in individuals with obesity.Nature metabolism · 2023Trial
- Conditioned accumbal dopamine transients forecast individual preference for drug versus natural rewards and compulsive behavior.Nature neuroscience · 2026Article
- Striatal Prediction Error Tracking Moderates the Influence of Social Exposure on Adolescent Substance Use Curiosity.Human brain mapping · 2026Article
- A Theoretical Framework for Studying the Phenomenon of Gaslighting.Personality and social psychology review : an official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc · 2026Review
- Modulation of feature attention by reward prediction error explains value learning behavior.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Insights into effortful adaptation during speech perception: The role of dopamine, norepinephrine, and prediction error.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Review
- Expectation Modulates Hedonic Experiences and Midbrain Responses to Sweet Flavor.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Interdependency between oxytocin and dopamine in trust-based learning in mice.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Role of the striatum in counterfactual information seeking.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2026Article
- Multisystem regulation of reward and addiction: beyond the dopaminergic system.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Review
- The informational dysregulation framework of addiction (IDFA): an information-processing model of relapse in opioid use disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- VTA network dominance in depression confers distinct psychopathological states through blunted neural tracking of reward prediction errors.Research square · 2025Article
- Pallidal Deep Brain Stimulation Enhances Habitual Behavior in a Neuro-Computational Basal Ganglia Model During a Reward Reversal Learning Task.The European journal of neuroscience · 2025Article
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- Are prediction error modifications domain specific in autism but domain general in ADHD?Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Predictive Processing and the Pathophysiology of Functional Neurological Disorder.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Review
- Habit-learning and decision-making circuits are susceptible to glycemic variability in type 2 diabetes: a longitudinal study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
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Abstract
A large body of work has linked dopaminergic signaling to learning and reward processing. It stresses the role of dopamine in reward prediction error signaling, a key neural signal that allows us to learn from past experiences, and that facilitates optimal choice behavior. Latterly, it has become clear that dopamine does not merely code prediction error size but also signals the difference between the expected value of rewards, and the value of rewards actually received, which is obtained through the integration of reward attributes such as the type, amount, probability and delay. More recent work has posited a role of dopamine in learning beyond rewards. These theories suggest that dopamine codes absolute or unsigned prediction errors, playing a key role in how the brain models associative regularities within its environment, while incorporating critical information about the reliability of those regularities. Work is emerging supporting this perspective and, it has inspired theoretical models of how certain forms of mental pathology may emerge in relation to dopamine function. Such pathology is frequently related to disturbed inferences leading to altered internal models of the environment. Thus, it is critical to understand the role of dopamine in error-related learning and inference.
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