The role of the striatum in aversive learning and aversive prediction errors

MR Delgado, J Li, D Schiller… - … Transactions of the …, 2008 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Neuroeconomic studies of decision making have emphasized reward learning as critical in
the representation of value-driven choice behaviour. However, it is readily apparent that …

Social and monetary reward learning engage overlapping neural substrates

A Lin, R Adolphs, A Rangel - Social cognitive and affective …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Learning to make choices that yield rewarding outcomes requires the computation of three
distinct signals: stimulus values that are used to guide choices at the time of decision …

[HTML][HTML] Neural systems underlying aversive conditioning in humans with primary and secondary reinforcers

MR Delgado, RL Jou, EA Phelps - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2011 - frontiersin.org
Money is a secondary reinforcer commonly used across a range of disciplines in
experimental paradigms investigating reward learning and decision-making. The …

Differential encoding of losses and gains in the human striatum

B Seymour, N Daw, P Dayan, T Singer… - Journal of …, 2007 - Soc Neuroscience
Studies on human monetary prediction and decision making emphasize the role of the
striatum in encoding prediction errors for financial reward. However, less is known about …

Neuronal reward and decision signals: from theories to data

W Schultz - Physiological reviews, 2015 - journals.physiology.org
Rewards are crucial objects that induce learning, approach behavior, choices, and
emotions. Whereas emotions are difficult to investigate in animals, the learning function is …

Neurally reconstructing expected utility

B Knutson, R Peterson - Games and Economic Behavior, 2005 - Elsevier
While the concept of “expected utility” informs many theories of decision making, little is
known about whether and how the human brain might compute this quantity. This article …

How instructed knowledge modulates the neural systems of reward learning

J Li, MR Delgado, EA Phelps - Proceedings of the National …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Recent research in neuroeconomics has demonstrated that the reinforcement learning
model of reward learning captures the patterns of both behavioral performance and neural …

Neural substrates of appetitive and aversive prediction error

MD Iordanova, JOY Yau, MA McDannald… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Prediction error, defined by the discrepancy between real and expected outcomes, lies at
the core of associative learning. Behavioural investigations have provided evidence that …

Monetary favors and their influence on neural responses and revealed preference

AH Harvey, U Kirk, GH Denfield… - Journal of …, 2010 - Soc Neuroscience
Favors from a sender to a receiver are known to bias decisions made by the recipient,
especially when the decision relates to the sender, a feature of social exchange known as …

[HTML][HTML] Dopaminergic and prefrontal basis of learning from sensory confidence and reward value

A Lak, M Okun, MM Moss, H Gurnani, K Farrell… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
Deciding between stimuli requires combining their learned value with one's sensory
confidence. We trained mice in a visual task that probes this combination. Mouse choices …