title: Dopamine: burning the candle at both ends.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Neurobiology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. Electronic address: pearson@neuro.duke.edu.
authors.forename: John M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Pearson
authors.forename: Michael L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Platt
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D059290:Dopaminergic Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation / Q000502:physiology*; D013378:Substantia Nigra / Q000166:cytology*; D017557:Ventral Tegmental Area / Q000166:cytology*