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Dynamics of dopamine transients in human olfactory epithelium during reward learning

Dopamine signaling is crucial for motivation, movement, and learning, but has remained beyond the reach of measurement in healthy humans. Here, we measured sub-second dopamine in the olfactory epithelium of healthy humans during two reward learning tasks with distinct reward types: liquid reward during a conditioning task and monetary reward during an economic exchange game. In both tasks, as…

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