Timothy Carroll

Nov 25, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Li-Ann Leow |Ashley Tan |Timothy Carroll |Robert Adam

AbstractSkilled motor performance is essential for survival. Indeed, we often not only choose to learn motor skills because of some external reward, but also because skilled movement, in and of itself, is satisfying. While dopamine is known to drive reward-based motor learning, it remains unclear whether dopamine is implicated in motor learning under conditions ostensibly driven by intrinsic rewards/motivation (i.e., in the absence of extrinsic feedback or reward).