The cost of obtaining rewards enhances the reward prediction error signal of midbrain dopamine neurons

Rewards that require high effort tend to be preferred over those that require low effort. Here, the authors show how the effort of obtaining rewards affects reward-related activity of dopamine neurons, and in turn the speed of learning stimulus-reward associations.

Abstract licence: CC BY-NC-ND

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