Prefrontal signals precede striatal signals for biased credit assignment in motivational learning biases

Abstract Actions are biased by the outcomes they can produce: Humans are more likely to show action under reward prospect, but hold back under punishment prospect. Such motivational biases derive not only from biased response selection, but also from biased learning: humans tend to attribute rewards...

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Main Authors: Johannes Algermissen, Jennifer C. Swart, René Scheeringa, Roshan Cools, Hanneke E. M. den Ouden
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44632-x