Executive Function Assigns Value to Novel Goal-Congruent Outcomes
| Autor: | Sonia J. Bishop, Anne G.E. Collins, Beth Baribault, Samuel D. McDougle, Ian C. Ballard |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Value (ethics)
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| Zdroj: | Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), vol 32, iss 1 Cereb Cortex |
| ISSN: | 1460-2199 1047-3211 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/cercor/bhab205 |
| Popis: | People often learn from the outcomes of their actions, even when these outcomes do not involve material rewards or punishments. How does our brain provide this flexibility? We combined behavior, computational modeling, and functional neuroimaging to probe whether learning from abstract novel outcomes harnesses the same circuitry that supports learning from familiar secondary reinforcers. Behavior and neuroimaging revealed that novel images can act as a substitute for rewards during instrumental learning, producing reliable reward-like signals in dopaminergic circuits. Moreover, we found evidence that prefrontal correlates of executive control may play a role in shaping flexible responses in reward circuits. These results suggest that learning from novel outcomes is supported by an interplay between high-level representations in prefrontal cortex and low-level responses in subcortical reward circuits. This interaction may allow for human reinforcement learning over arbitrarily abstract reward functions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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