TWiN 3: Gambling on dopamine
This Week in Neuroscience
English - December 18, 2019 00:30 - 1 hour - 47 MB - ★★★★★ - 75 ratingsLife Sciences Science Natural Sciences Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Erin and the TWiN team explain how dopamine neurons encode reward probability and uncertainty, and their roles in attention-based learning and risk-taking such as gambling and addiction.
Hosts: Ori Lieberman, Erin Calipari,Jason Shepherd, and Vincent Racaniello
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Links for this episode Dopamine neurons encode reward probability and uncertainty (Science) Letters read on TWiN #3Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees.
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