Caudate nucleus signals for breaches of expectation in a movement observation paradigm

The striatum has been established as a carrier of reward related prediction errors. This prediction error signal concerns the difference between how much reward was predicted and how much reward is gained. However, it remains to be established whether general breaches of expectation, i.e. perceptual...

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Main Authors: Anne-Marike eSchiffer, Ricarda I Schubotz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2011.00038/full