Modern theories of associative learning center on a prediction error. A study finds that artificial activation of dopamine neurons can substitute for missing reward prediction errors to rescue blocked learning.
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In the version of this article initially published, Mihaela D. Iordanova's affiliation was given as the Department of Psychology, University of Maryland Baltimore County instead of the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, and the former was omitted from Geoffrey Schoenbaum's affiliations. The error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.
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Schoenbaum, G., Esber, G. & Iordanova, M. Dopamine signals mimic reward prediction errors. Nat Neurosci 16, 777–779 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3448
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