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This Week in Microbiology is a podcast about unseen life on Earth hosted by Vincent Racaniello and friends. Following in the path of his successful shows 'This Week in Virology' (TWiV) and 'This Week in Parasitism' (TWiP), Racaniello and guests produce an informal yet informative conversation about microbes which is accessible to everyone, no matter what their science background.
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TWiN 40: Dopamine organizes behavior's syllables
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Tim takes TWiN through two studies on the role of dopamine: that syllables are natural units of spontaneous behavior used by the brain to structure action, and that mesolimbic dopamine release conveys causal associations but not reward prediction errors, thereby challenging the dominant theory of reward learning.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison
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- Spontaneous behavior without explicit reward (Nature)
- Dopamine release conveys causal associations (Science)
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Music is by Ronald Jenkees
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