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Which mechanisms are hypothesized to change synapses in the cortex in response to signals from the mesolimbic pathways?

The mesolimbic pathways appear to be involved in signaling both factual and counterfactual reward prediction errors (regret and relief). In which ways are these signals believed to affect neurons in the cortex? It seems to me there are several…
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