eprintid: 10123650 rev_number: 15 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/12/36/50 datestamp: 2021-03-10 15:40:16 lastmod: 2021-10-04 01:29:13 status_changed: 2021-03-10 15:40:16 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Oettl, L-L creators_name: Scheller, M creators_name: Filosa, C creators_name: Wieland, S creators_name: Haag, F creators_name: Loeb, C creators_name: Durstewitz, D creators_name: Shusterman, R creators_name: Russo, E creators_name: Kelsch, W title: Phasic dopamine reinforces distinct striatal stimulus encoding in the olfactory tubercle driving dopaminergic reward prediction ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B02 divisions: C08 divisions: D75 keywords: Science & Technology, Multidisciplinary Sciences, Science & Technology - Other Topics, VENTRAL STRIATUM, NEURONS, REPRESENTATIONS, UNCERTAINTY, ACTIVATION, SIGNALS, MODELS, ROLES, PSYCHOSIS, BEHAVIOR note: This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. abstract: The learning of stimulus-outcome associations allows for predictions about the environment. Ventral striatum and dopaminergic midbrain neurons form a larger network for generating reward prediction signals from sensory cues. Yet, the network plasticity mechanisms to generate predictive signals in these distributed circuits have not been entirely clarified. Also, direct evidence of the underlying interregional assembly formation and information transfer is still missing. Here we show that phasic dopamine is sufficient to reinforce the distinctness of stimulus representations in the ventral striatum even in the absence of reward. Upon such reinforcement, striatal stimulus encoding gives rise to interregional assemblies that drive dopaminergic neurons during stimulus-outcome learning. These assemblies dynamically encode the predicted reward value of conditioned stimuli. Together, our data reveal that ventral striatal and midbrain reward networks form a reinforcing loop to generate reward prediction coding. date: 2020-07-10 date_type: published publisher: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP official_url: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17257-7 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1852031 doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-17257-7 lyricists_name: Oettl, Lars-Lennart lyricists_id: LOETT99 actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette actors_id: BFFLY94 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Nature Communications volume: 11 article_number: 3460 pages: 14 issn: 2041-1723 citation: Oettl, L-L; Scheller, M; Filosa, C; Wieland, S; Haag, F; Loeb, C; Durstewitz, D; ... Kelsch, W; + view all <#> Oettl, L-L; Scheller, M; Filosa, C; Wieland, S; Haag, F; Loeb, C; Durstewitz, D; Shusterman, R; Russo, E; Kelsch, W; - view fewer <#> (2020) Phasic dopamine reinforces distinct striatal stimulus encoding in the olfactory tubercle driving dopaminergic reward prediction. Nature Communications , 11 , Article 3460. 10.1038/s41467-020-17257-7 <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17257-7>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10123650/1/s41467-020-17257-7.pdf