Two studies invite us to reconsider the nature of striatal dopamine signals. Accumbens dopamine appears to signal the value of overt action and prediction errors arise from deviations in these signals.
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Collins, A., Frank, M. Surprise! Dopamine signals mix action, value and error. Nat Neurosci 19, 3–5 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.4207
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