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Serotonin Selectively Modulates Reward Value in Human Decision-Making
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Establishing a function for the neuromodulator serotonin in human decision-making has proved remarkably difficult because if its complex role in reward and punishment processing. In a novel choice task where actions led concurrently and independently to the stochastic delivery of both money and pain, we studied the impact of decreased brain serotonin induced by acute dietary tryptophan depletion. Depletion selectively impaired both behavioral and neural representations of reward outcome value, and hence the effective exchange rate by which rewards and punishments were compared. This effect was computationally and anatomically distinct from a separate effect on increasing outcome-independent choice perseveration. Our results provide evidence for a surprising role for serotonin in reward processing, while illustrating its complex and multifarious effects.
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- Authors
- Seymour, B., Daw, N. D., Roiser, J. P., Dayan, P., & Dolan, R.
- Affiliations
- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (GB)
- Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit (GB)
- Venue
- The Journal of Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Society for Neuroscience
- Published
- 2012-04-25
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 17
- Pages
- 5833-5842
- ISSN
- 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
- 1529-2401
- PMC
- PMC5321452
- OpenAlex
- W2083058253
- Cited by
- 252
- References
- 61
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- FWCI
- 8.57
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- journal article
- Language
- en
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- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust (091593, 079866)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Keywords
- serotonin, decision-making, reward value, tryptophan depletion, monetary rewards, pain, punishment, reward processing, computational modeling of choice
- MeSH terms
- Brain, Brain Mapping, Conditioning, Operant, Decision Making, Double-Blind Method, Electric Stimulation, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Oxygen, Pain, Pain Measurement, Probability, Punishment, Surveys and Questionnaires, Reward, Serotonin, Statistics as Topic, Tryptophan, Dietary Supplements
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