Yes, everything is on fire, but also we did some neat science. Read @schreinerdrew.bsky.social’s excellent breakdown here. tl;dr: we can track learning of birdsong on a syllable-by-syllable basis, and yes, dopamine tracks better-than-recent performance, but it’s more interesting than you’d think!
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Drew Schreiner
Proud to have contributed to @jiaxuanqi.bsky.social's masterpiece out @nature.com! She shows that dopamine transients track the learned quality of song during juvenile learning and that dopamine release is driven not just by VTA firing, but by a local cholinergic mechanism! (1/x)
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