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ArticleNature communications2024

Temporal regularities shape perceptual decisions and striatal dopamine signals.

Matthias Fritsche, Antara Majumdar, Lauren Strickland, Samuel Liebana Garcia, Rafal Bogacz, Armin Lak

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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  7. Local Regulation of Striatal Dopamine Release Shifts from Predominantly Cholinergic in Mice to GABAergic in Macaques.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  8. Dopaminergic computations for perceptual decisions.Current opinion in behavioral sciences · 2024
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6 authors.

Matthias FritscheDepartment of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Matthias.Fritsche@dpag.ox.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0001-5835-9057
Antara MajumdarDepartment of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Lauren StricklandDepartment of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Samuel Liebana GarciaDepartment of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Rafal BogaczMRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8994-1661
Armin LakDepartment of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Armin.Lak@dpag.ox.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-1926-5458

Funding

Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) LT0045/2022-LMedical Research Council MC_UU_00003/1RCUK | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) BB/S006338/1RCUK | Medical Research Council (MRC) MC_UU_00003/1Wellcome Trust 213465
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Perceptual decisions should depend on sensory evidence. However, such decisions are also influenced by past choices and outcomes. These choice history biases may reflect advantageous strategies to exploit temporal regularities of natural environments. However, it is unclear whether and how observers can adapt their choice history biases to different temporal regularities, to exploit the multitude of temporal correlations that exist in nature. Here, we show that male mice adapt their perceptual choice history biases to different temporal regularities of visual stimuli. This adaptation was slow, evolving over hundreds of trials across several days. It occurred alongside a fast non-adaptive choice history bias, limited to a few trials. Both fast and slow trial history effects are well captured by a normative reinforcement learning algorithm with multi-trial belief states, comprising both current trial sensory and previous trial memory states. We demonstrate that dorsal striatal dopamine tracks predictions of the model and behavior, suggesting that striatal dopamine reports reward predictions associated with adaptive choice history biases. Our results reveal the adaptive nature of perceptual choice history biases and shed light on their underlying computational principles and neural correlates.

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Choice BehaviorCorpus StriatumDopamineAnimalsDecision MakingMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLPhotic StimulationReinforcement, PsychologyRewardVisual PerceptionDopamine

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PMID39154025
PMCPMC11330509

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