The debate over dopamine’s role in reward: the case for incentive salience

By Kent C. Berridge. 2007

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Subfields: Behavioral Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience

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Short-term plasticity as cause–effect hypothesis testing in distal reward learning (2014, background): “The maximization of reward functions was also implemented in a variety of neural network models (Lin, 1993; Pennartz, 1997; Schultz et al, 1997; Bosman et al, 2004; Xie and Seung, 2004; Florian, 2007; Farries and Fairhall, 2007; Baras and Meir, 2007; Legenstein et al, 2010; Frémaux et al, 2010; Frie”
A developmental, mentalization-based approach to the understanding and treatment of borderline personality disorder (2009, background): “These findings suggest that for securely attached mothers, infant cues (whether positive or negative in affect) may act as an important affective signal of “incentive salience” (Berridge, 2007), reinforcing and motivating responsive maternal care.”
Understanding dopamine and reinforcement learning: The dopamine reward prediction error hypothesis (2011, background): “Berridge (53) has argued that dopamine neurons play a role closely related to”
Novelty or Surprise? (2013, background): “Dopamine is a neuromodulator that is well known to play a pivotal role in motivational and reinforcement learning processes (Wise, 2004; Berridge, 2007).”
The Influence of Affective States on Cognitive Broadening⁄Narrowing: Considering the Importance of Motivational Intensity (2012, background): “Research has revealed that pregoal and postgoal positive affect states are associated with different neural structures and neurochemicals (Berridge, 2007; HarmonJones, Harmon-Jones, Fearn, Sigelman, & Johnson, 2008; Knutson & Wimmer, 2007; Panksepp, 1998).”
Synaptic and Behavioral Profile of Multiple Glutamatergic Inputs to the Nucleus Accumbens (2012, background): “Additionally, the information encoded in these inputs clearly has motivational value, which supports the theory that dopamine in the NAc acts to amplify or regulate the incentive properties of environmental stimuli that are presumably encoded in glutamatergic signals (Berridge, 2007).”
Integrating psychological and neurobiological considerations regarding the development and maintenance of specific Internet-use disorders: An Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-PACE) model. (2016, positive): “One xample is the incentive salience theory and the distinction of “likng” from “wanting” a drug (Berridge, 2007; Berridge et al., 2009; obinson and Berridge, 2001, 2008).”
Depression, Stress, and Anhedonia: Toward a Synthesis and Integrated Model (2014, background): “Decades of neuroscience research have shown that DA plays a critical role in reinforcement learning (Schultz 1998) and incentive motivation (Berridge 2007).”
Unique properties of mesoprefrontal neurons within a dual mesocorticolimbic dopamine system. (2008, positive): “…pattern of DA release in, for example, cortical target areas during different behavioral contexts, more related to salience (Bassareo et al., 2002; Berridge, 2007; Di Chiara and Bassareo, 2007), effort (Salamone et al., 2007), or working memory and cognitive control (Aalto et al., 2005; Phillips…”
Does Negative Affect Always Narrow and Positive Affect Always Broaden the Mind? Considering the Influence of Motivational Intensity on Cognitive Scope (2013, background): “This distinction is supported by research suggesting that different neural structures and chemicals are involved in low- versus high-approach positive states (Berridge, 2007; Knutson & Wimmer, 2007).”
Functional grouping and cortical-subcortical interactions in emotion: A meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies (2008, positive): “…but a growing literature suggests roles in goal-directed behavior and motivated learning rather than hedonic experience per se. for example, DA can be released in response to both positive (reward), negative (tail shock), or simply salient events (Horvitz, 2000); and dopaminergic enhancement…”
Ever-changing cycles of musical pleasure: The role of dopamine and anticipation. (2012, background): “An underlying alerting signal or incentive salience has been proposed to be the cause of these burst responses by dopaminergic neurons to sensory events (Berridge, 2007; Bromberg-Martin et al., 2010; Schultz, 1998).”
The Social Salience Hypothesis of Oxytocin. (2016, positive): “The detection of salient stimuli is centrally regulated by the dopaminergic system (86, 87) and is characterized by a sharp increase (phasic) in dopaminergic activity, 70-100ms post the presentation of the stimulus, and occurs before an orienting gaze-shift, which has a latency of 150-200ms indicati”
Cognitive bias as an indicator of animal emotion and welfare: Emerging evidence and underlying mechanisms (2009, background): “The cue itself will thus come to motivate ‘wanting’ (coded as neural activity in the DA system and/or in cortical areas such as the OFC, Rolls, 2005; Berridge, 2007), and may generate a reward prediction signal in the DA system.”