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Multiple reward signals in the brain
Abstract
The fundamental biological importance of rewards has created an increasing interest in the neuronal processing of reward information. The suggestion that the mechanisms underlying drug addiction might involve natural reward systems has also stimulated interest. This article focuses on recent neurophysiological studies in primates that have revealed that neurons in a limited number of brain structures carry specific signals about past and future rewards. This research provides the first step towards an understanding of how rewards influence behaviour before they are received and how the brain might use reward information to control learning and goal-directed behaviour.
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“That is, it is the anticipation of reward (broadly defined) or reward prediction error (Schultz, 2000(Schultz, , 2013) ) that places this form of enhanced expectancies within our consideration here.”
From Optimizing performance through intrinsic motivation and attention for learning: The OPTIMAL theory of motor learning (2016) · cites this paper as Schultz, 2000
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“Importantly, rewards appear to exert their effects via expectation rather than receipt.”
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“This analysis confirms that adolescents generally activate a similar set of subcortical structures as adults when processing reward-relevant contexts.”
From Neural networks involved in adolescent reward processing: an activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies (2015) · cites this paper as Schultz, 2000
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“These findings are consistent with the different functions associated with distinct regions of the striatum: afferent projections to dorsal striatum are thought to be crucial for learning correct actions so as to maximize reward, whereas projections to ventral striatum, including nucleus accumbens, have a key function in reward prediction and pavlovian learning18-20,23,24.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Schultz, W.
- Affiliations
- University of Fribourg (CH)
- Corresponding author
- Schultz, Wolfram
- ORCID
- Schultz, Wolfram
- Venue
- Nature Reviews Neuroscience
- Published
- 2000-12
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 199-207
- ISSN
- 1471-003X (ISSN-L)
- 1471-0048
- OpenAlex
- W2126449078
- Cited by
- 1,303
- References
- 99
- Citations by year
- 2026: 34 · 2025: 28 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 30 · 2022: 34 · 2021: 48 · 2020: 37 · 2019: 45 · 2018: 52 · 2017: 42 · 2016: 63 · 2015: 55 · 2014: 62 · 2013: 61 · 2012: 72
- FWCI
- 4.12
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature reviews. Neuroscience (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 signals, reward processing, drug addiction, primate neurophysiology, goal-directed behavior, learning
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Behavior, Animal, Brain, Emotions, Humans, Reward, Signal Transduction
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