Pessiglione et al. (2006)

Dopamine-dependent prediction errors underpin reward-seeking behaviour in humans

Nature, 442(7106), 1042-1045

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Pessiglione, M., Seymour, B., Flandin, G., Dolan, R. J., & Frith, C. D. (2006). Dopamine-dependent prediction errors underpin reward-seeking behaviour in humans. Nature, 442(7106), 1042-1045. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05051

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Instrumental Learning Memory Systems

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During human instrumental learning, drugs that boost or reduce dopamine function changed the size of striatal reward prediction errors and, with them, how often people chose the rewarding option