title: Neuroeconomics: a formal test of dopamine's role in reinforcement learning.
abstract: Over the last two decades, dopamine and reinforcement learning have been increasingly linked. Using a novel, axiomatic approach, a recent study shows that dopamine meets the necessary and sufficient conditions required by the theory to encode a reward prediction error.
authors.affiliation: Systems Neuroscience Lab, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, Centro Champalimaud, Avenida Brasilia, 1400-038 Lisboa, Portugal. Electronic address: eric.dewitt@neuro.fchampalimaud.org.
authors.forename: Eric E J
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: DeWitt
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002755:Choice Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D004298:Dopamine / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D009714:Nucleus Accumbens / Q000378:metabolism*; D012201:Reward
chemical_list: D004298:Dopamine