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BI 194 Vijay Namboodiri & Ali Mohebi: Dopamine Keeps Getting More Interesting
The classic story is that dopamine is related to reward prediction errors. That is, dopamine is modulated when you expect reward and don’t get it, and/or when you don’t expect reward but do get it. Vijay calls this a “prospective” account of dopamine function, since it requires an animal to look into the future to expect a reward. Vijay has shown, however, that a retrospective account of dopamine might better explain lots of know behavioral data. This retrospective account links dopamine to how we understand causes and effects in our ongoing behavior. So in this episode, Vijay gives us a history lesson about dopamine, his newer story and why it has caused a bit of controversy, and how all of this came to be.
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