Research on dopamine lies at the intersection of sophisticated theoretical and
neurobiological approaches to learning and memory. Dopamine has been shown to be …

Dopamine is critical for many processes that drive learning and memory, including
motivation, prediction error, incentive salience, memory consolidation, and response output …

Insights into the Role of Dopamine Receptor Systems in Learning and Memory Page 1 ©
Freund & Pettman, UK Reviews in the Neurosciences, 18, 37-66 (2007) Insights into the Role …

It is a joyous relief when an event we dread fails to materialize. In fear extinction, the
appetitive nature of an omitted aversive event is not a mere epiphenomenon but drives the …

The hypothesis that dopamine is important for reward has been proposed in a number of
forms, each of which has been challenged. Normally, rewarding stimuli such as food, water …

Dopamine, one of the main neurotransmitters in the mammalian brain, has been implicated
in the coding of prediction errors that govern reward learning as well as fear extinction …

The ability to extinguish fear memories when threats are no longer present is critical for
adaptive behavior. Fear extinction represents a new learning process that eventually leads …

Recent advances in the cognitive neuroscience of motivation and learning have
demonstrated a critical role for midbrain dopamine and its targets in reward prediction …

Overcoming aversive emotional memories requires neural systems that detect when fear
responses are no longer appropriate so that they can be extinguished. The midbrain ventral …

Extinction of behavior enables adaptation to a changing world and is crucial for recovery
from disorders such as phobias and drug addiction. However, the brain mechanisms …