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Parsing reward
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Advances in neurobiology permit neuroscientists to manipulate specific brain molecules, neurons and systems. This has lead to major advances in the neuroscience of reward. Here, it is argued that further advances will require equal sophistication in parsing reward into its specific psychological components: (1) learning (including explicit and implicit knowledge produced by associative conditioning and cognitive processes); (2) affect or emotion (implicit 'liking' and conscious pleasure) and (3) motivation (implicit incentive salience 'wanting' and cognitive incentive goals). The challenge is to identify how different brain circuits mediate different psychological components of reward, and how these components interact.
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“Furthermore, DA (as discussed above) and EO reward systems may subserve dissociable components of rewards that may be applicable for understanding the maternal brain: a behavioural reinforcement learning component (‘wanting’) and a hedonic experience component (‘liking’), respectively (60).”
From Neuroendocrinology of Parental Response to Baby‐Cry (2011) · cites this paper as [60]
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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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“Although dopamine had long been thought to mediate ‘liking’, recent evidence indicates that dopamine is neither necessary nor sufficient for generating ‘liking’ responses, but plays a more important role in the motivational component (‘wanting’) of reward [8].”
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“Whereas ‘wanting’ is mainly driven by phasic dopaminergic neural firing in the ventral striatum (including the nucleus accumbens), ‘liking’ is largely influenced by the opioid system, and recruits the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC).”
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“Research has indeed shown that reward is not a unitary construct, but is actually comprised of different components, which can be dissociated both psychologically and neurobiologically [8].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Berridge, K. C., & Robinson, T. E.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- Corresponding author
- Berridge, Kent C.
- Robinson, Terry E.
- Venue
- Trends in Neurosciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2003-09
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 507-513
- ISSN
- 0166-2236 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4238669448
- Cited by
- 1,869
- References
- 67
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- FWCI
- 3.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Trends in Neurosciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Keywords
- reward, learning, affect, emotions, motivation, incentive salience, liking, pleasure, associative conditioning, brain circuits
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Emotions, Humans, Learning, Motivation, Reward
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