Dissecting components of reward: ‘liking’, ‘wanting’, and learning

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“Increasing incentive sensitization, as a result of conditioning processes (Berridge et al., 2009), may associate with attentional bias and cue-reactivity in later stages of addiction processes.”

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“The importance of conditioning in the development of addictive behaviors has been suggested theoretically, for example within the incentive sensitization theory (Berridge et al., 2009;Robinson and Berridge, 1993, 2001, 2008), and has been demonstrated empirically in substance addictions (Duka et al., 2011;Hogarth et al., 2010Hogarth et al., , 2006;;Loeber and Duka, 2009), for example using the Pav”

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“There are two components of reward –‘wanting’ and ‘liking’ [10], see Glossary– both of which apply to social signals.”

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“Subcortical structures are most involved in the generation of reward utilities, but require cortical involvement for conscious hedonic representations [10].”

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“Engagement of reward circuitry in situations of social deficit may enhance the rewarding value of social contact—potentially similar to how food deprivation enhances the rewarding properties of food219–222.”

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“However, under particular circumstances such as drug addiction, ‘liking’ and ‘wanting’ can be dissociated, where ‘wanting’ may even occur despite the fact that the user might not subjectively enjoy the reward itself (Berridge & Robinson, 2003; Berridge, Robinson, & Aldridge, 2009).”

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“Given that there are diverse neurological correlates underpinning the pleasure cycle (152), it may be that there are multiple biological pathways underpinning social anhedonia, which can account for its presentation in multiple disorders of distinct etiological mechanisms.”

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“These effects also appear to be largely dependent on the VS [43–45].”

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“behavioral expressions of liking are unaffected by amphetamine injection into the Nacc [43,44].”

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“Another feature of an incentive stimulus is to be “wanted” and as such animals should work to obtain it10,16.”

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“While the ventral striatum signals the anticipatory drive for a motivational incentive, the medial prefrontal cortex encodes and acts upon reward values (Berridge et al., 2009).”

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“Typically, rewards that are ‘liked’ are also ‘wanted’.”

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“On a temporal dimension, the processing of reward can be subdivided into two successive phases, with an appetitive anticipation or ‘wanting’ period usually preceding a reward consumption or ‘liking’ response (Figure 1).”

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“More specifically, reward ‘liking’ usually triggers and directs reward ‘wanting’ so that the extent to which a reward is wanted typically depends on the degree to which it has been liked [7].”