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Action Dominates Valence in Anticipatory Representations in the Human Striatum and Dopaminergic Midbrain
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The acquisition of reward and the avoidance of punishment could logically be contingent on either emitting or withholding particular actions. However, the separate pathways in the striatum for go and no-go appear to violate this independence, instead coupling affect and effect. Respect for this interdependence has biased many studies of reward and punishment, so potential action-outcome valence interactions during anticipatory phases remain unexplored. In a functional magnetic resonance imaging study with healthy human volunteers, we manipulated subjects' requirement to emit or withhold an action independent from subsequent receipt of reward or avoidance of punishment. During anticipation, in the striatum and a lateral region within the substantia nigra/ventral tegmental area (SN/VTA), action representations dominated over valence representations. Moreover, we did not observe any representation associated with different state values through accumulation of outcomes, challenging a conventional and dominant association between these areas and state value representations. In contrast, a more medial sector of the SN/VTA responded preferentially to valence, with opposite signs depending on whether action was anticipated to be emitted or withheld. This dominant influence of action requires an enriched notion of opponency between reward and punishment.
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“The human lateral SN/VTA has been similarly shown to be activated during anticipation (i.e. before execution of motor responses) to acquire a reward or to avoid a punishment [53].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Guitart-Masip, M., Fuentemilla, L., Bach, D. R., Huys, Q. J. M., Dayan, P., Dolan, R. J., & Duzel, E.
- Affiliations
- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (GB)
- UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology (GB)
- Venue
- The Journal of Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Society for Neuroscience
- Published
- 2011-05-25
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 21
- Pages
- 7867-7875
- ISSN
- 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
- 1529-2401
- PMC
- PMC3109549
- OpenAlex
- W2020682620
- Cited by
- 216
- References
- 71
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 19 · 2014: 20 · 2013: 25 · 2012: 12
- FWCI
- 9.91
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RECERCAT (Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat de Barcelona (Universitat de Barcelona) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Max Planck Digital Library (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust (078865/Z/05/Z, 078865)
- Gatsby Charitable Foundation
- European Commission (220139)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (TP A7, SFB 779)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Keywords
- striatum, substantia nigra/ventral tegmental area, reward anticipation, action representation, state values, dopaminergic midbrain
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Corpus Striatum, Dopamine, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Mesencephalon, Photic Stimulation, Reaction Time, Young Adult, Anticipation, Psychological
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