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Principles of pleasure prediction: specifying the neural dynamics of human reward learning.

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Accumulating evidence from nonhuman primates suggests that midbrain dopamine cells code reward prediction errors and that this signal subserves reward learning in dopamine-receiving brain structures. In this issue of Neuron, McClure et al. and ODoherty ... (Full abstract text below)

Published 2003Apr in Journal: Neuron (Language : eng)

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1. Neuron. 2003 Apr;38(2):150-2

Principles of pleasure prediction: specifying the neural dynamics of human reward learning.

Braver TS, Brown JW

Department of Psychology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63139, USA.

Accumulating evidence from nonhuman primates suggests that midbrain dopamine cells code reward prediction errors and that this signal subserves reward learning in dopamine-receiving brain structures. In this issue of Neuron, McClure et al. and O'Doherty et al. use event-related fMRI to provide some of the strongest evidence to date that the reward prediction error model of dopamine system activity applies equally well to human reward learning.

PMID : 12718849 [PubMed - Indexed for MEDLINE]

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First Name	LastName	Initials
Todd S	Braver	TS
Joshua W	Brown	JW

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63139, USA.

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