Action versus valence in decision making
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The selection of actions, and the vigor with which they are executed, are influenced by the affective valence of predicted outcomes. This interaction between action and valence significantly influences appropriate and inappropriate choices and is implicated in the expression of psychiatric and neurological abnormalities, including impulsivity and addiction. We review a series of recent human behavioral, neuroimaging, and pharmacological studies whose key design feature is an orthogonal manipulation of action and valence. These studies find that the interaction between the two is subject to the critical influence of dopamine. They also challenge existing views that neural representations in the striatum focus on valence, showing instead a dominance of the anticipation of action.
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The caudate showed enhanced BOLD responses bilaterally during the options trials, consistent with the well-documented role of this region in economic and social decision-making, and motor response.
“The caudate showed enhanced BOLD responses bilaterally during the options trials (Figure S4), consistent with the well-documented role of this region in economic and social decision-making, and motor response (Brosch and Sander, 2013; Fareri and Delgado, 2014; Guitart-Masip et al., 2014; Lim et al., 2011).”
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- Authors
- Guitart-Masip, M., Duzel, E., Dolan, R., & Dayan, P.
- Affiliations
- Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit (GB)
- ORCID
- Dayan, Peter
- Venue
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-04
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 194-202
- ISSN
- 1364-6613 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3989998
- OpenAlex
- W1969707662
- Cited by
- 270
- References
- 100
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 2.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Max Planck Digital Library (submittedVersion)
- DZNE Pub (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust (091593, 098362, 098362/Z/12/Z, 091593/Z/10/Z)
- Gatsby Charitable Foundation
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Keywords
- emotional valence, decision-making, dopamine, striatum, action prediction, impulsivity, addiction, action selection, outcome prediction
- MeSH terms
- Brain, Decision Making, Dopamine, Humans, Learning, Movement, Neuroimaging
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