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Natural behaviour is learned through dopamine-mediated reinforcement.
Article in Nature, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Acetylcholine: a candidate substrate for hippocampal predictive learning?Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2026Review
- Striatal Dopamine at Learned Sequence Boundaries Sustains Birdsong.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- A synaptic locus of song learning.Nature · 2026Article
- Prediction error correlates in the striosome-dopamine circuit emerge from information gain.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Vocal and social impairments in songbirds embryonically exposed to an autism risk factor.iScience · 2026Article
- Midbrain endocannabinoids actuate dopamine-based action selection.Cell reports · 2026Article
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- From Spontaneous Ignitions to Sensorimotor Cell Assemblies via Dopamine: A Spiking Neurocomputational Model of Infants' Hand Action Acquisition.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Sharp Waves, Bursts, and Coherence: Activity in a Songbird Vocal Circuit Is Influenced by Behavioral State.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Correctness is its own reward: bootstrapping error signals in self-guided reinforcement learning.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Many natural motor skills, such as speaking or locomotion, are acquired through a process of trial-and-error learning over the course of development. It has long been hypothesized, motivated by observations in artificial learning experiments, that dopamine has a crucial role in this process. Dopamine in the basal ganglia is thought to guide reward-based trial-and-error learning by encoding reward prediction errors
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