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TWiN 3: Gambling on dopamine

  • December 18, 2019
  • Tagged as: addiction, dopamine, dopamine neurons, gambling, nervous system, neuron, neuroscience, Pavlovian procedure, reward probability, risky behavior, uncertainty

Erin and the TWiN team explain how dopamine neurons encode reward probability and uncertainty, and their roles in attention-based learning and risk-taking such as gambling and addiction.

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