The causal structure and computational value of narratives

J Chen, AM Bornstein - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
Many human behavioral and brain imaging studies have used narratively structured stimuli
(eg, written, audio, or audiovisual stories) to better emulate real-world experience in the …

The curious case of dopaminergic prediction errors and learning associative information beyond value

T Kahnt, G Schoenbaum - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2025 - nature.com
Transient changes in the firing of midbrain dopamine neurons have been closely tied to the
unidimensional value-based prediction error contained in temporal difference reinforcement …

Does phasic dopamine release cause policy updates?

F Carter, MP Cossette, I Trujillo‐Pisanty… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Phasic dopamine activity is believed to both encode reward‐prediction errors (RPEs) and to
cause the adaptations that these errors engender. If so, a rat working for optogenetic …

Expectancy-related changes in firing of dopamine neurons depend on hippocampus

YK Takahashi, Z Zhang, M Montesinos-Cartegena… - …, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and hippocampus (HC) are both implicated in forming the
cognitive or task maps that support flexible behavior. Previously, we used the dopamine …

Mesolimbic dopamine ramps reflect environmental timescales

JR Floeder, H Jeong, A Mohebi, VMK Namboodiri - bioRxiv, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Mesolimbic dopamine activity occasionally exhibits ram** dynamics, reigniting debate on
theories of dopamine signaling. This debate is ongoing partly because the experimental …