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Disruption of positive- and negative-feature morphine interoceptive occasion setters by dopamine receptor agonism and antagonism in male and female rats

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“But why?” Dopamine and causal learning

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The flow of reward information through neuronal ensembles in the accumbens

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The devilish details affecting TDRL models in dopamine research

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Reelin marks cocaine-activated striatal neurons, promotes neuronal excitability, and regulates cocaine reward

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Differential Dopamine Release Dynamics in the Nucleus Accumbens Core and Shell Reveal Complementary Signals for Error Prediction and Incentive Motivation

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Neuromodulation: A model for dopamine in salience encoding

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Behavioral/Cognitive Phasic Dopamine Release in the Rat Nucleus Accumbens Symmetrically Encodes a Reward Prediction Error Term

Hart, A. S., Rutledge, R. B., Glimcher, P. W., & Phillips, P. E. M. (2015)

Phasic Dopamine Release in the Rat Nucleus Accumbens Symmetrically Encodes a Reward Prediction Error Term

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Dopamine transients encode reward prediction errors independent of learning rates

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