This is the dataset for the article: Trujillo-Pisanty I, Conover K, Solis P, Palacios D, Shizgal P (2020). Dopamine neurons do not constitute an obligatory stage in the final common path for the evaluation and pursuit of brain stimulation reward. PLOS ONE 15(6): e0226722. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226722