Dopamine In Learning Research Paper

Dr. Yael Niv of Princeton University spoke about the role of dopamine in learning. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter sends signals from the central nervous system and passes information from one neuron to another, providing communication between nerve cells as well as between nerve and muscle cells. When dopamine is present during an event or experience, we will remember it and if it’s not present we won’t remember it. In her lecture, she stressed alteration of basal ganglia and frontoparietal network.
In class, we discussed the effects of dopamine, memory and the hippocampus (associated mainly with memory, in particular long-term memory) and the parts of the basal ganglia that affects memory. The amygdala, part of the basal ganglia is responsible