Dopamine in motivational control: rewarding, aversive, and alerting

ES Bromberg-Martin, M Matsumoto, O Hikosaka - Neuron, 2010 - cell.com
Midbrain dopamine neurons are well known for their strong responses to rewards and their
critical role in positive motivation. It has become increasingly clear, however, that dopamine …

Neural circuitry of information seeking

ES Bromberg-Martin, IE Monosov - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Humans and animals seek information about uncertain future
rewards.•Information is valued for resolving uncertainty and signaling desirable …

[HTML][HTML] The value of beliefs

ES Bromberg-Martin, T Sharot - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
We construct our beliefs to meet two sometimes conflicting goals: forming accurate beliefs to
inform our decisions and forming desirable beliefs that we value for their own sake. In this …

Midbrain dopamine neurons signal preference for advance information about upcoming rewards

ES Bromberg-Martin, O Hikosaka - Neuron, 2009 - cell.com
The desire to know what the future holds is a powerful motivator in everyday life, but it is
unknown how this desire is created by neurons in the brain. Here we show that when …

Distinct tonic and phasic anticipatory activity in lateral habenula and dopamine neurons

ES Bromberg-Martin, M Matsumoto, O Hikosaka - Neuron, 2010 - cell.com
Dopamine has a crucial role in anticipation of motivational events. To investigate the
underlying mechanisms of this process, we analyzed the activity of dopamine neurons and …

Lateral habenula neurons signal errors in the prediction of reward information

ES Bromberg-Martin, O Hikosaka - Nature neuroscience, 2011 - nature.com
Humans and animals have the ability to predict future events, which they cultivate by
continuously searching their environment for sources of predictive information. However …

A pallidus-habenula-dopamine pathway signals inferred stimulus values

ES Bromberg-Martin, M Matsumoto… - Journal of …, 2010 - journals.physiology.org
The reward value of a stimulus can be learned through two distinct mechanisms:
reinforcement learning through repeated stimulus-reward pairings and abstract inference …

[HTML][HTML] Orbitofrontal cortex uses distinct codes for different choice attributes in decisions motivated by curiosity

TC Blanchard, BY Hayden, ES Bromberg-Martin - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
Decision makers are curious and consequently value advance information about future
events. We made use of this fact to test competing theories of value representation in area …

Multiple timescales of memory in lateral habenula and dopamine neurons

ES Bromberg-Martin, M Matsumoto, H Nakahara… - Neuron, 2010 - cell.com
Midbrain dopamine neurons are thought to signal predictions about future rewards based on
the memory of past rewarding experience. Little is known about the source of their reward …

Coding of task reward value in the dorsal raphe nucleus

ES Bromberg-Martin, O Hikosaka… - Journal of …, 2010 - Soc Neuroscience
The dorsal raphe nucleus and its serotonin-releasing neurons are thought to regulate
motivation and reward-seeking. These neurons are known to be active during motivated …