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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Lak A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5116238 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
eLife 20161027
Economic theories posit reward probability as one of the factors defining reward value. Individuals learn the value of cues that predict probabilistic rewards from experienced reward frequencies. Building on the notion that responses of dopamine neurons increase with reward probability and expected value, we asked how dopamine neurons in monkeys acquire this value signal that may represent an economic decision variable. We found in a Pavlovian learning task that reward probability-dependent valu ...[more]