Article ; Online: Neurobiology of reward-related learning.
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
2021 Volume 124, Page(s) 224–234
Abstract: A major goal in psychology is to understand how environmental stimuli associated with primary rewards come to function as conditioned stimuli, acquiring the capacity to elicit similar responses to those elicited by primary rewards. Our neurobiological ... ...
Abstract | A major goal in psychology is to understand how environmental stimuli associated with primary rewards come to function as conditioned stimuli, acquiring the capacity to elicit similar responses to those elicited by primary rewards. Our neurobiological model is predicated on the Hebbian idea that concurrent synaptic activity on the primary reward neural substrate-proposed to be ventral tegmental area (VTA) dopamine (DA) neurons-strengthens the synapses involved. We propose that VTA DA neurons receive both a strong unconditioned stimulus signal (acetylcholine stimulation of DA cells) from the primary reward capable of unconditionally activating DA cells and a weak stimulus signal (glutamate stimulation of DA cells) from the neutral stimulus. Through joint stimulation the weak signal is potentiated and capable of activating the VTA DA cells, eliciting a conditioned response. The learning occurs when this joint stimulation initiates intracellular second-messenger cascades resulting in enhanced glutamate-DA synapses. In this review we present evidence that led us to propose this model and the most recent evidence supporting it. |
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MeSH term(s) | Conditioning, Classical ; Dopaminergic Neurons ; Learning ; Reward ; Ventral Tegmental Area |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2021-02-10 |
Publishing country | United States |
Document type | Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Review |
ZDB-ID | 282464-4 |
ISSN | 1873-7528 ; 0149-7634 |
ISSN (online) | 1873-7528 |
ISSN | 0149-7634 |
DOI | 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.02.007 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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