ReviewFrontiers in psychology2019
Hierarchical Action Control: Adaptive Collaboration Between Actions and Habits.
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- Cognitive computational model reveals repetition bias in a sequential decision-making task.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- Emergence of Categorical Representations in Parietal and Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex across Extended Training.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- The temporal trajectories of habit decay in daily life: An intensive longitudinal study on four health-risk behaviors.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2025Article
- Maturation of striatal dopamine supports the development of habitual behavior through adolescence.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Social threat avoidance depends on action-outcome predictability.Communications psychology · 2024Article
- A cognitive approach to better understand foraging strategies of the adult domestic hen.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Acute stress facilitates habitual behavior in female rats.Physiology & behavior · 2024Article
- Stimulus control of habits: Evidence for both stimulus specificity and devaluation insensitivity in a dual-response task.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2024Article
- Positive correlation between measures of habitual responding and motivated responding in mice.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2024Article
- Sex and individual differences in the effect of chronic low-dose ethanol on behavioral strategy selection.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2024Article
- Making and breaking habits: Revisiting the definitions and behavioral factors that influence habits in animals.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2024Review
- What can machine learning teach us about habit formation? Evidence from exercise and hygiene.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Striatopallidal adenosine ANeuropharmacology · 2023Review
- From helplessness to controllability: toward a neuroscience of resilience.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Review
- The positive valence system, adaptive behaviour and the origins of reward.Emerging topics in life sciences · 2022Review
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Abstract
It is now commonly accepted that instrumental actions can reflect goal-directed control; i.e., they can show sensitivity to changes in the relationship to and the value of their consequences. With overtraining, stress, neurodegeneration, psychiatric conditions, or after exposure to various drugs of abuse, goal-directed control declines and instrumental actions are performed independently of their consequences. Although this latter insensitivity has been argued to reflect the development of habitual control, the lack of a positive definition of habits has rendered this conclusion controversial. Here we consider various alternative definitions of habit, including recent suggestions they reflect chunked action sequences, to derive criteria with which to categorize responses as habitual. We consider various theories regarding the interaction between goal-directed and habitual controllers and propose a collaborative model based on their hierarchical integration. We argue that this model is consistent with the available data, can be instantiated both at an associative level and computationally and generates interesting predictions regarding the influence of this collaborative integration on behavior.
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