The Role of the Dorsal Striatum in Reward and Decision-Making

By Bernard W. Balleine, Mauricio R. Delgado, Okihide Hikosaka. Journal of Neuroscience, 2007

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Although the involvement in the striatum in the refinement and control of motor movement has long been recognized, recent description of discrete frontal corticobasal ganglia networks in a range of species has focused attention on the role particularly of the dorsal striatum in executive functions. Current evidence suggests that the dorsal striatum contributes directly to decision-making, especially to action selection and initiation, through the integration of sensorimotor, cognitive, and motivational/emotional information within specific corticostriatal circuits involving discrete regions of striatum. We review key evidence from recent studies in rodent, nonhuman primate, and human subjects.

Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience

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Modulators of decision making (2008, methodology): “Flattening of the utility curve, for instance by satiety, is called devaluation and is a useful tool for assessing the mechanism of valuatio”
Striatal plasticity and basal ganglia circuit function (2008, background): “…of evidence suggests that rapid, goal-directed learning primarily involves the dorsomedial striatum, whereas the slower acquisition of habits, which are insensitive to changes in the reward value of the outcome, involves the dorsolateral striatum (Balleine et al., 2007; Yin and Knowlton, 2006).”
Triple dissociation of information processing in dorsal striatum, ventral striatum, and hippocampus on a learned spatial decision task (2010, positive): “This is congruent with previous suggestions about the role of dorsal striatum as indicated by inactivation, recording, and imaging studies (Poldrack and Packard, 2003; Balleine et al., 2007; Redish et al., 2008).”
Decision theory, reinforcement learning, and the brain (2010, background): “We have mentioned studies in rats suggesting that model-based mechanisms and goal-directed control (involving the medial prefrontal cortex and the dorsomedial striatum) and model-free mechanisms and habitual control (involving the dorsolateral striatum and dopaminergic neuromodulation) coexist and, ”
A genetically-encoded fluorescent sensor enables rapid and specific detection of dopamine in flies, fish, and mice (2018, positive): “Transient fluctuations in the ratio are consistent with spontaneous DA release events during the animal movement (Balleine et al., 2007; da Silva et al., 2018; Howe and Dombeck, 2016).”
The Neuroanatomical Organization of the Basal Ganglia (2010, background): “…performs a computation on sensorimotor, cognitive, and emotional/motivational information provided by the cerebral cortex (and probably thalamus) to facilitate the selection of an appropriate action out of a collection of possibilities (Balleine et al., 2007; Cisek and Kalaska, 2010; Nambu, 2008).”
Schizophrenia, Dopamine and the Striatum: From Biology to Symptoms (2019, background): “Supporting this, lesions to nigrostriatal pathways and dorsal striatum disrupt habit formation, amphetamine sensitisation encourages habit formation, and it is the dorsal striatum that is implicated in the habitual responses to drug cues experienced by addicts [45].”
Modulation of striatal projection systems by dopamine (2011, positive): “Consistent with such data, current models propose that the striatum performs a computation on sensorimotor, cognitive and emotional/motivational information provided by the cerebral cortex to facilitate the selection of an appropriate action out of a collections of possibilities (Balleine et al., 20”
The tempted brain eats: pleasure and desire circuits in obesity and eating disorders. (2010, positive): “The ventral striatum (nucleus accumbens) is famous for motivation, but recently the dorsal striatum (neostriatum) has become implicated in food motivation and reward too (in addition to the well-known dorsal striatal role in movement) (Balleine et al., 2007; Palmiter, 2007; Schultz and Dickinson, 20”
Decision theory, reinforcement learning, and the brain (2008, methodology): “We have mentioned studies in rats suggesting that model-based mechanisms and goal-directed control (involving the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the dorsomedial striatum) and model-free mechanisms and habitual control (involving the dorsolateral striatum and dopaminergic neuromodulation) coexist”
States versus Rewards: Dissociable neural prediction error signals underlying model-based and model-free reinforcement learning (2010, background): “…systems involved in behavioral control: a model-based (goal-directed) system that may involve a number of cortical areas in addition to parts of anterior medial striatum, and a model-free (habitual) system that may depend predominantly on dopaminergic-striatal pathways (Balleine et al., 2007).”