Dopamine facilitates associative memory encoding in the entorhinal cortex

Nature, Published online: 22 September 2021; doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03948-8

Cell-type-specific electrophysiological recording, fibre photometry and optogenetic manipulations in mice show that dopamine signals from the ventral tegmental area to the lateral entorhinal cortex have a key role in cue–reward associative learning.