AQUILI Luca    所属   立命館アジア太平洋大学  国際経営学部    職種   准教授
言語種別	英語
発行・発表の年月	2020
形態種別	学術論文
査読	査読あり
標題	Occasion setters determine responses of putative DA neurons to discriminative stimuli
執筆形態	筆頭著者
掲載誌名	NEUROBIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY
掲載区分	国外
巻・号・頁	173
国際共著	国際共著
著者・共著者	Aquili Luca, Bowman Eric M., Schmidt Robert
概要	This electrophysiological study recorded putative ventral tegmental dopamine neurons while rats used occasion setters to interpret discriminative cues. At the population level, neurons did not respond uniformly to the occasion-setting cue. Individual units instead showed heterogeneous increases, decreases, or no change, and responses to discriminative stimuli were likewise more diverse than the population average suggested. The results indicate that dopamine activity reflects contextual control through locally differentiated signals rather than a single homogeneous value code. They also caution against inferring uniform neuronal functions from population-level averages alone.
DOI	10.1016/j.nlm.2020.107270
ISSN	1074-7427