In this issue of Nature Neuroscience, Eshel et al. characterize the homogeneity with which individual dopamine neurons encode reward prediction error, a teaching signal that is thought to be crucial for associative learning.
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Parker, N., Witten, I. Gaining on reward prediction errors. Nat Neurosci 19, 418–419 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.4246
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