ArticleFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2020
Habitual Preference for the Nondrug Reward in a Drug Choice Setting.
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- A Review of Behavioral Economic Manipulations Affecting Drug versus Nondrug Choice in Rats.Perspectives on behavior science · 2025Review
- Negative affect-driven impulsivity as hierarchical model-based overgeneralization.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2025Review
- Effect of the reinforcement rate on goal-directed and habitual choices in a multiple schedule.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Neural circuits controlling choice behavior in opioid addiction.Neuropharmacology · 2023Review
- Lack of action monitoring as a prerequisite for habitual and chunked behavior: Behavioral and neural correlates.iScience · 2023Article
- Individual differences in addiction-like behaviors and choice between cocaine versus food in Heterogeneous Stock rats.Psychopharmacology · 2021Article
- Probing the decision-making mechanisms underlying choice between drug and nondrug rewards in rats.eLife · 2021Article
- Habit, choice, and addiction.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2021Review
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Abstract
For adaptive and efficient decision making, it must be possible to select between habitual alternative courses of action. However, research in rodents suggests that, even in the context of simple decision-making, choice behavior remains goal-directed. In contrast, we recently found that during discrete trial choice between cocaine and water, water-restricted rats preferred water and this preference was habitual and inflexible (i.e., resistant to water devaluation by satiation). Here we sought to test the reproducibility and generality of this surprising finding by assessing habitual control of preference for saccharin over cocaine in non-restricted rats. Specifically, after the acquisition of preference for saccharin, saccharin was devalued and concurrent responding for both options was measured under extinction. As expected, rats responded more for saccharin than for cocaine during extinction, but this difference was unaffected by saccharin devaluation. Together with our previous research, this result indicates that preference for nondrug alternatives over cocaine is under habitual control, even under conditions that normally support goal-directed control of choice between nondrug options. The possible reasons for this difference are discussed.
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