What if your brain had a built-in map—not of places, but of possible futures? Researchers at the Champalimaud Foundation (CF) blend neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI) to reveal that populations of dopamine neurons in the brain don’t just track whether rewards are coming—they encode maps of when those rewards might arrive and how big they might be.
Many possible futures: How dopamine in the brain might inform AI that adapts quickly to change
