Friday, September 20, 2013

Cognitive neuroscience: A functional gradient

Cognitive neuroscience: A functional gradient
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Issue - nature.com science feeds

Nature Reviews Neuroscience 14, 666 (2013). doi:10.1038/nrn3595

Author: Katherine Whalley

Recent work suggests that dopamine neurons have a role in cognitive processing that is distinct from their established role in reward prediction error coding. Here, the authors recorded from midbrain dopamine neurons in monkeys as they performed a task requiring working memory and visual search.



Original Article: http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nrn/rss/current/~3/XITjUeIlLnk/nrn3595

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