ArticleJournal of the experimental analysis of behavior2024
Stimulus control of habits: Evidence for both stimulus specificity and devaluation insensitivity in a dual-response task.
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- Sequence termination cues drive automated habit-like strategy via dopamine-mediated processes.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Sequence termination cues drive habits via dopamine-mediated credit assignment.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
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- Effect of the reinforcement rate on goal-directed and habitual choices in a multiple schedule.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Stimulus conditions that promote habitual control.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The Small G-Protein Rac1 in the Dorsomedial Striatum Promotes Alcohol-Dependent Structural Plasticity and Goal-Directed Learning in Mice.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 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
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Abstract
Goal-directed and habitual actions are clearly defined by their associative relations. Whereas goal-directed control can be confirmed via tests of outcome devaluation and contingency-degradation sensitivity, a comparable criterion for positively detecting habits has not been established. To confirm habitual responding, a test of control by the stimulus-response association is required while also ruling out goal-directed control. Here we describe an approach to developing such a test in rats using two discriminative stimuli that set the occasion for two different responses that then earn the same outcome. Performance was insensitive to outcome devaluation and showed stimulus-response specificity, indicative of stimulus-controlled behavior. The reliance of stimulus-response associations was further supported by a lack of sensitivity during the single extinction test session used here. These results demonstrate that two concurrently trained responses can come under habitual control when they share a common outcome. By reducing the ability of one stimulus to signal its corresponding response-outcome association, we found evidence for goal-directed control that can be dissociated from habits. Overall, these experiments provide evidence that tests assessing specific stimulus-response associations can be used to investigate habits.
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