Understanding emotions: origins and roles of the amygdala

G Šimić, M Tkalčić, V Vukić, D Mulc, E Španić, M Šagud… - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Emotions arise from activations of specialized neuronal populations in several parts of the
cerebral cortex, notably the anterior cingulate, insula, ventromedial prefrontal, and …

The orbitofrontal cortex: reward, emotion and depression

ET Rolls, W Cheng, J Feng - Brain communications, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The orbitofrontal cortex in primates including humans is the key brain area in emotion, and
in the representation of reward value and in non-reward, that is not obtaining an expected …

A distributional code for value in dopamine-based reinforcement learning

W Dabney, Z Kurth-Nelson, N Uchida, CK Starkweather… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Since its introduction, the reward prediction error theory of dopamine has explained a wealth
of empirical phenomena, providing a unifying framework for understanding the …

Ultrafast neuronal imaging of dopamine dynamics with designed genetically encoded sensors

T Patriarchi, JR Cho, K Merten, MW Howe, A Marley… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Neuromodulators, such as dopamine, norepinephrine, or serotonin, exert
powerful control over neural circuit dynamics that give rise to diverse neural function and …

[PDF][PDF] A genetically encoded fluorescent sensor enables rapid and specific detection of dopamine in flies, fish, and mice

F Sun, J Zeng, M Jing, J Zhou, J Feng, SF Owen, Y Luo… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Dopamine (DA) is a central monoamine neurotransmitter involved in many physiological
and pathological processes. A longstanding yet largely unmet goal is to measure DA …

[HTML][HTML] Where is the error? Hierarchical predictive coding through dendritic error computation

FA Mikulasch, L Rudelt, M Wibral… - Trends in Neurosciences, 2023 - cell.com
Top-down feedback in cortex is critical for guiding sensory processing, which has
prominently been formalized in the theory of hierarchical predictive coding (hPC). However …

Prefrontal cortex as a meta-reinforcement learning system

JX Wang, Z Kurth-Nelson, D Kumaran, D Tirumala… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Over the past 20 years, neuroscience research on reward-based learning has converged on
a canonical model, under which the neurotransmitter dopamine 'stamps in'associations …

[PDF][PDF] Dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens core signals perceived saliency

MG Kutlu, JE Zachry, PR Melugin, SA Cajigas… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
A large body of work has aimed to define the precise information encoded by dopaminergic
projections innervating the nucleus accumbens (NAc). Prevailing models are based on …

An expanded palette of dopamine sensors for multiplex imaging in vivo

T Patriarchi, A Mohebi, J Sun, A Marley, R Liang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Genetically encoded dopamine sensors based on green fluorescent protein (GFP) enable
high-resolution imaging of dopamine dynamics in behaving animals. However, these GFP …

The theory of constructed emotion: an active inference account of interoception and categorization

LF Barrett - Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The science of emotion has been using folk psychology categories derived from philosophy
to search for the brain basis of emotion. The last two decades of neuroscience research …