Dissociating cognitive and behavioral functions of the human striatum
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The striatum, initially identified as a primarily motoric structure, is now known to facilitate many cognitive functions, including learning, motivation, and the experience of reward. Although the striatum's involvement with these functions is well established, uncertainty remains regarding the structural and functional neural pathways that give rise to these capacities. Here, we present results from functional imaging experiments on human participants that were designed to dissociate the processes supported by striatal subregions. Across two studies, we show that the dorsal and ventral striatum contribute to distinct aspects of behavior and cognition: whereas the ventral striatum is associated with reward processing and model-free learning, the dorsal striatum is more involved in the initiation of motivated actions and learning abstract behavioral rules.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Miller, Eric Matthew |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Psychology. |
| Primary advisor | McClure, Samuel M |
| Thesis advisor | McClure, Samuel M |
| Thesis advisor | Goodman, Noah |
| Thesis advisor | Knutson, Brian |
| Advisor | Goodman, Noah |
| Advisor | Knutson, Brian |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Eric Matthew Miller. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Psychology. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2015 by Eric Matthew Miller
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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