Striatal dopamine can enhance both fast working memory, and slow reinforcement learning, while reducing implicit effort cost sensitivity

Abstract Associations can be learned incrementally, via reinforcement learning (RL), or stored instantly in working memory (WM). While WM is fast, it is also capacity-limited and effortful. Striatal dopamine may promote WM, by facilitating WM updating and effort exertion and also RL, by boosting pla...

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Main Authors: Andrew Westbrook, Ruben van den Bosch, Lieke Hofmans, Danae Papadopetraki, Jessica I. Määttä, Anne G. E. Collins, Michael J. Frank, Roshan Cools
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61099-0
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