Dopamine: burning the candle at both ends.

Journal Article (Journal Article)

Dopamine neurons are well known for signaling reward-prediction errors. In this issue, Matsumoto and Takada (2013) show that some dopamine neurons also signal salient events during progression through a visual search task requiring working memory and sustained attention.

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Duke Authors

Cited Authors

  • Pearson, JM; Platt, ML

Published Date

  • September 4, 2013

Published In

Volume / Issue

  • 79 / 5

Start / End Page

  • 831 - 833

PubMed ID

  • 24011998

Pubmed Central ID

  • PMC3844548

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1097-4199

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.08.011

Language

  • eng

Conference Location

  • United States