ReviewAnnual review of psychology2017
Learning, Reward, and Decision Making.
Review in Annual review of psychology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 174 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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174 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- How childhood adversity affects components of decision making.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Shared and distinct neural activity during anticipation and outcome of win and loss: A meta-analysis of the monetary incentive delay task.NeuroImage · 2022Pooled it
- Systematic Review of Functional MRI Applications for Psychiatric Disease Subtyping.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- The rise and fall of substance use during treatment: Applying recency and expectancy principles to daily substance use patterns.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2023Trial
- Impaired Learning From Negative Feedback in Stimulant Use Disorder: Dopaminergic Modulation.The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology · 2021Trial
- Neurobehavioral differences in value-based decision making between people with cocaine use disorder and controls.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2026Article
- A Mouse-Tracking Paradigm for Value-Driven Attentional Capture.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Dopamine projections to the basolateral amygdala enable reward prediction.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Arousal shapes motivation: an integrative framework for understanding motivational deficits.Translational psychiatry · 2026Review
- Ultrasound neuromodulation reveals distinct roles of the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and anterior insula in learning.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- The Periaqueductal Gray Selectively Supports Reversal Learning During a Flexible Discrimination Task in Mice.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Revealing abrupt transitions from goal-directed to habitual behavior.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Persistent representation of a prior schema in the orbitofrontal cortex facilitates learning of a conflicting schema.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Social closeness and reward sensitivity enhance corticostriatal function during experiences of shared rewards.Biological psychology · 2026Article
- Children and adults differ in how primary and secondary incentives modulate valuation, effort, and cognitive control.PloS one · 2026Article
- The Role of Pavlovian Bias in Smoking Cessation Success and Neurocognitive Alterations During Nicotine Withdrawal.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- How working memory and reinforcement learning interact when avoiding punishment and pursuing reward concurrently.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2025Article
- Sparse memory ensembles set brain-wide network states to sustain learned associations.iScience · 2025Article
- Social Closeness and Reward Sensitivity Enhance Corticostriatal Function during Experiences of Shared Rewards.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Reward Network Activations of Win Versus Loss in a Monetary Gambling Task.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
In this review, we summarize findings supporting the existence of multiple behavioral strategies for controlling reward-related behavior, including a dichotomy between the goal-directed or model-based system and the habitual or model-free system in the domain of instrumental conditioning and a similar dichotomy in the realm of Pavlovian conditioning. We evaluate evidence from neuroscience supporting the existence of at least partly distinct neuronal substrates contributing to the key computations necessary for the function of these different control systems. We consider the nature of the interactions between these systems and show how these interactions can lead to either adaptive or maladaptive behavioral outcomes. We then review evidence that an additional system guides inference concerning the hidden states of other agents, such as their beliefs, preferences, and intentions, in a social context. We also describe emerging evidence for an arbitration mechanism between model-based and model-free reinforcement learning, placing such a mechanism within the broader context of the hierarchical control of behavior.
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