Appropriate selection of situation-appropriate behaviour in our everyday life requires both learning and motor control, and a key neuromodulator involved in these processes is dopamine. This research project focuses on understanding how dopamine signalling varies within functionally distinct regions of the striatum, a large input structure of the basal ganglia. Real-time dopamine release is recorded using an electrochemical technique known as fast-scan cyclic voltammetry while subjects perform a behavioural task that considers reward prediction error and movement.

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