A neural substrate of prediction and reward by Wolfram Schultz and others Created 2026-10-24 Updated 2026-10-31
Primary source. Published 1997. Relevant locator: Abstract and reward-prediction-error interpretation; Science 275, pp. 1593–1599. This paper supplies the theoretical synthesis; the accompanying original recording and causal-intervention studies provide the direct experimental evidence.
Responses of monkey dopamine neurons to reward and conditioned stimuli during successive steps of learning a delayed response task by Wolfram Schultz and others Created 2026-10-24 Updated 2026-10-31
Primary source. Published 1993. Relevant locator: Abstract; Journal of Neuroscience 13, pp. 900–913: learning versus established performance.