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Dopamine Builds and Reveals Reward-Associated Latent Behavioral Attractors

Jérémie Naudé
Mxb. Sarazin
S. Mondoloni
B. Hanesse
  • Fonction : Auteur
E. Vicq
  • Fonction : Auteur
F. Amegandjin
  • Fonction : Auteur
A. Mourot
P. Faure
B. Delord

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ABSTRACT Phasic variations in dopamine levels are interpreted as a teaching signal reinforcing rewarded behaviors. However, behavior also depends on the online, neuromodulatory effect of phasic dopamine signaling. Here, we unravel a new neurodynamical principle that reconciles these roles. In a biophysical recurrent network-based decision architecture, we showed that dopamine-mediated synaptic plasticity stabilized neural assemblies representing rewarded locations as latent, local attractors. Dopamine-modulated synaptic excitability activated these attractors online, and they became accessible as internal goals, even from remote animal positions. We experimentally validated these predictions in mice, using optogenetics, by demonstrating that online dopamine signaling specifically attracts animals toward rewarded locations, without off-target motor effects. We therefore propose that online dopamine signaling reveals potential goals by widening and deepening the basin of dopamine-built attractors representing rewards.

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hal-03766496 , version 1 (01-09-2022)

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Jérémie Naudé, Mxb. Sarazin, S. Mondoloni, B. Hanesse, E. Vicq, et al.. Dopamine Builds and Reveals Reward-Associated Latent Behavioral Attractors. 2022. ⟨hal-03766496⟩
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