Latest News

Response-independent outcome presentations dissociate stimulus and value based choice: Instrumental degradation and specific PIT

A ventral pallidal-thalamocortical circuit mediates the cognitive control of instrumental action

Prefrontal Control of Actions and Habits

What role does striatal dopamine play in goal-directed action?

Striatal dopamine release tracks the relationship between actions and their consequences

Adaptation of sequential action benefits from timing variability related to lateral basal ganglia circuitry

Stimulus–outcome associations are required for the expression of specific Pavlovian-instrumental transfer

Stimulus control of habits: Evidence for both stimulus specificity and devaluation insensitivity in a dual-response task

Immp2l knockdown in male mice increases stimulus-driven instrumental behaviour but does not alter goal-directed learning or neuron density in cortico-striatal circuits in a model of Tourette syndrome and autism spectrum disorder

High fat diet allows food-predictive stimuli to energize action performance in the absence of hunger, without distorting insulin signaling on accumbal cholinergic interneurons

Restoring the youthful state of striatal plasticity in aged mice re-enables cognitive control of action

Goal-directed action is transiently impaired in a hAPP-J20 mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease

What does dopamine release reveal about latent inhibition?

The motivational determinants of human action, their neural bases and functional impact in adolescents with OCD

The role of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in the motivational control of instrumental action

The positive valence system, adaptive behaviour and the origins of reward

Response-independent outcome presentations weaken the instrumental response-outcome association.

Food for thought: diet-induced impairments to decision-making and amelioration by N-acetylcysteine in male rats

Making habits measurable beyond what they are not: a focus on associative dual-process models

Contributions of intrinsic and extrinsic reward sensitivity to apathy: Evidence from traumatic brain injury.