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TWiN 3: Gambling on dopamine

81 min • 18 december 2019

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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TWiN 3: Gambling on dopamine

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