ReviewTrends in cognitive sciences2014
Action versus valence in decision making.
Review in Trends in cognitive sciences, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 145 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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145 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Differential Associations of Dopamine and Serotonin With Reward and Punishment Processes in Humans: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JAMA psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
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- A feature-based network analysis and fMRI meta-analysis reveal three distinct types of prosocial decisions.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2021Pooled it
- Cortical dopamine reduces the impact of motivational biases governing automated behaviour.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2022Trial
- Dopamine Modulates Dynamic Decision-Making during Foraging.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020Trial
- Reward and avoidance learning in the context of aversive environments and possible implications for depressive symptoms.Psychopharmacology · 2019Trial
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- Seeing through rose-colored glasses: How optimistic expectancies guide visual attention.PloS one · 2018Trial
- Cue avoidance training and inhibitory control training for the reduction of alcohol consumption: a comparison of effectiveness and investigation of their mechanisms of action.Psychopharmacology · 2017Trial
- Pilot test of a novel food response and attention training treatment for obesity: Brain imaging data suggest actions shape valuation.Behaviour research and therapy · 2017Trial
- Serotonin and dopamine differentially affect appetitive and aversive general Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer.Psychopharmacology · 2015Trial
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- Reduced Affective Biasing of Instrumental Action With tDCS Over the Prefrontal Cortex.Brain stimulationTrial
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- Impaired midfrontal‑motor theta phase synchronization characterizes maladaptive motivational behavior in people with obsessive‑compulsive disorder.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- The social life of Pavlovian learning.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Review
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- Cardiac systole is associated with enhanced go responding in an orthogonalized go/nogo task.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Ultrasound neuromodulation reveals distinct roles of the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and anterior insula in learning.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- Activity in human dorsal raphe nucleus signals changes in behavioural policy.Nature communications · 2026Article
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Abstract
The selection of actions, and the vigor with which they are executed, are influenced by the affective valence of predicted outcomes. This interaction between action and valence significantly influences appropriate and inappropriate choices and is implicated in the expression of psychiatric and neurological abnormalities, including impulsivity and addiction. We review a series of recent human behavioral, neuroimaging, and pharmacological studies whose key design feature is an orthogonal manipulation of action and valence. These studies find that the interaction between the two is subject to the critical influence of dopamine. They also challenge existing views that neural representations in the striatum focus on valence, showing instead a dominance of the anticipation of action.
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