Neuron
Volume 106, Issue 1, 8 April 2020, Pages 11-13
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Dopamine Signals Learn New Tricks

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In this issue of Neuron, Morrens et al. (2020) show that stimulus-evoked dopamine responses are enhanced by novelty and increase the rate at which animals acquire conditioned responses. These results provide a candidate neural mechanism for latent inhibition and illustrate a new role of dopamine signals in learning.

Keywords

dopamine
learning
associability
novelty

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