Dopaminergic mechanism underlying reward-encoding of punishment omission during reversal learning in Drosophila

Unexpected omission of aversive outcome is encoded as reward via activation of reward-encoding dopaminergic neurons in animals. The authors identify the Drosophila neural circuit through which reward-encoding dopaminergic neurons are activated when an olfactory cue is no longer paired with punishmen...

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Main Authors: Li Yan McCurdy, Preeti Sareen, Pasha A. Davoudian, Michael N. Nitabach
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21388-w