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Surprise! Dopamine signals mix action, value and error

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Two studies invite us to reconsider the nature of striatal dopamine signals. Accumbens dopamine appears to signal the value of overt action and prediction errors arise from deviations in these signals.

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Figure 1: Functions of dopamine in action and learning.

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  1. Anne G.E. Collins and Michael J. Frank are in the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences and Brown Institute for Brain Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.,

    Anne G E Collins & Michael J Frank

  2. Anne G.E. Collins is also in the Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.,

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Collins, A., Frank, M. Surprise! Dopamine signals mix action, value and error. Nat Neurosci 19, 3–5 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.4207

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