Caplin, Andrew; Dean, Mark; Glimcher, Paul W.; … - In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics 125 (2010) 3, pp. 923-960
The neurotransmitter dopamine is central to the emerging discipline of neuroeconomics; it is hypothesized to encode the difference between expected and realized rewards and thereby to mediate belief formation and choice. We develop the first formal tests of this theory of dopaminergic function,...