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TWiN 40: Dopamine organizes behavior's syllables

This Week in Neuroscience

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The Effects of Dopamine on Learning

Mice are more prone to exploring if there's a big dopamine spike. Exploratory behaviors might intrinsically be more like dopamine prone. But we don't know what reward is for this. This goes back to Vincent's point that, you know, the internal state of the animal is unclear to us. And we're exactly speculating on internal state to use it to explain what dopamine is doing.

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