{"id":190526,"date":"2024-06-03T00:23:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T05:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/study-sheds-new-light-on-the-contribution-of-dopamine-to-reinforcement-learning"},"modified":"2024-06-03T00:23:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T05:23:59","slug":"study-sheds-new-light-on-the-contribution-of-dopamine-to-reinforcement-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/study-sheds-new-light-on-the-contribution-of-dopamine-to-reinforcement-learning","title":{"rendered":"Study sheds new light on the contribution of dopamine to reinforcement learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-sheds-new-light-on-the-contribution-of-dopamine-to-reinforcement-learning3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The neurotransmitter dopamine has often been linked to pleasure-seeking behaviors and making stimuli paired with rewards (e.g., food, drinks) valuable. Nonetheless, the processes through which this key chemical messenger contributes to learning have not yet been fully elucidated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The neurotransmitter dopamine has often been linked to pleasure-seeking behaviors and making stimuli paired with rewards (e.g., food, drinks) valuable. Nonetheless, the processes through which this key chemical messenger contributes to learning have not yet been fully elucidated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}