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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2024

Dopamine Release in the Nucleus Accumbens Core Encodes the General Excitatory Components of Learning.

Masakazu Taira, Samuel J Millard, Anna Verghese, Lauren E DiFazio, Ivy B Hoang, Ruiting Jia, Ana Sias, Andrew Wikenheiser, Melissa J Sharpe

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Dopamine Supports Reward Prediction to Shape Reward-Pursuit Strategy.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Masakazu TairaDepartment of Psychology, University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales 2006, Australia masakazu.taira@sydney.edu.au melissa.sharpe@sydney.edu.au.
Samuel J MillardDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles 90095, California.
Anna VergheseDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles 90095, California.
Lauren E DiFazioDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles 90095, California.
Ivy B HoangDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles 90095, California.
Ruiting JiaDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles 90095, California.
Ana SiasDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles 90095, California.
Andrew WikenheiserDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles 90095, California.
Melissa J SharpeDepartment of Psychology, University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales 2006, Australia masakazu.taira@sydney.edu.au melissa.sharpe@sydney.edu.au.ORCID 0000-0002-5375-2076

Funding

UCLA Training Program in Translational Neuroscience of Drug Abuse (TNDA)T32DA024635 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI LARA A. RAY, Kate M Wassum · 2008 to 2026
$6.2M
Contribution of non-canonical dopamine pathways to model-based learningR01DA057084 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI Melissa Sharpe, Kate M Wassum · 2023 to 2026
$2.5M
The role of the lateral hypothalamus in the balance of learning and behavior towards relevant stimuliR01DA054967 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY · PI Melissa Sharpe · 2022 to 2026
$1.5M
Investigating the Recruitment of Lateral Hypothalamic Circuits for Encoding Fear Memories Following Experience with Reward LearningR21MH126278 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI SHARPE, MELISSA · 2022 to 2023
$429k
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA054967NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA057084NIDA NIH HHS T32 DA024635NIMH NIH HHS R21 MH126278
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens core (NAcC) is generally considered to be a proxy for phasic firing of the ventral tegmental area dopamine (VTA

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DopamineLearningNucleus AccumbensRewardAnimalsCuesMaleRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyVentral Tegmental AreaDopaminebackward conditioningdopaminelearningmodel-basedrewardsensory-specific

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PMID38969504
PMCPMC11358529

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