ReviewNature reviews. Neuroscience2025
The curious case of dopaminergic prediction errors and learning associative information beyond value.
Review in Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 2025. 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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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Dynamic salience as a basis for behavioural meta-malleability.Royal Society open science · 2026Review
- Ketone Supplementation Attenuates Prediction Error Taste Response in Eating Disorders: A Proof-of-Concept Study.The International journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Prediction error correlates in the striosome-dopamine circuit emerge from information gain.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Mesocorticostriatal Reinforcement Learning of State Representation and Value with Implications for the Mechanisms of Schizophrenia.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Dopaminergic responses to identity prediction errors depend differently on the orbitofrontal cortex and hippocampus.Behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Multisystem regulation of reward and addiction: beyond the dopaminergic system.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Review
- Neural sampling from cognitive maps enables goal-directed imagination and planning.Nature machine intelligence · 2026Article
- Striatal Dopamine Actions and Movement: Inferences from Parkinson Disease.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Review
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Abstract
Transient changes in the firing of midbrain dopamine neurons have been closely tied to the unidimensional value-based prediction error contained in temporal difference reinforcement learning models. However, whereas an abundance of work has now shown how well dopamine responses conform to the predictions of this hypothesis, far fewer studies have challenged its implicit assumption that dopamine is not involved in learning value-neutral features of reward. Here, we review studies in rats and humans that put this assumption to the test, and which suggest that dopamine transients provide a much richer signal that incorporates information that goes beyond integrated value.
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