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SUBMITTER: Suarez JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6450666 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Suarez Javier A JA Howard James D JD Schoenbaum Geoffrey G Kahnt Thorsten T
eLife 20190405
The firing of dopaminergic midbrain neurons is thought to reflect prediction errors (PE) that depend on the difference between the value of expected and received rewards. However, recent work has demonstrated that unexpected changes in value-neutral outcome features, such as identity, can evoke similar responses. It remains unclear whether the magnitude of these identity PEs scales with the perceptual dissimilarity of expected and received rewards, or whether they are independent of perceptual s ...[more]