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Margarida Sousa

Champalimaud Foundation

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Animal Behavior & CognitionNaturePeer-reviewedJun 4, 2025

Dopamine neurons encode a multidimensional probabilistic map of future reward

Margarida Sousa, Pawel Bujalski, Bruno F. Cruz…·Joseph J. Paton

This study introduces time-magnitude RL (TMRL), a new reinforcement learning framework, and shows that dopamine neurons encode a probabilistic map of future rewards in mice.

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