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Mesolimbic dopamine ramps reflect environmental timescales.
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- Duration between rewards controls the rate of behavioral and dopaminergic learning.Nature neuroscience · 2026Article
- Memory erasure by dopamine-gated retrospective learning.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- A brief history of dopamine prediction errors.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2026Review
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- Learning Temporal Relationships Between Symbols with Laplace Neural Manifolds.Computational brain & behavior · 2025Article
- Prospective contingency explains behavior and dopamine signals during associative learning.Nature neuroscience · 2025Article
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Abstract
Mesolimbic dopamine activity occasionally exhibits ramping dynamics, reigniting debate on theories of dopamine signaling. This debate is ongoing partly because the experimental conditions under which dopamine ramps emerge remain poorly understood. Here, we show that during Pavlovian and instrumental conditioning in mice, mesolimbic dopamine ramps are only observed when the inter-trial interval is short relative to the trial period. These results constrain theories of dopamine signaling and identify a critical variable determining the emergence of dopamine ramps.
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