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SUBMITTER: Dayan P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2222921 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dayan Peter P Huys Quentin J M QJ
PLoS computational biology 20080201 2
Pavlovian predictions of future aversive outcomes lead to behavioral inhibition, suppression, and withdrawal. There is considerable evidence for the involvement of serotonin in both the learning of these predictions and the inhibitory consequences that ensue, although less for a causal relationship between the two. In the context of a highly simplified model of chains of affectively charged thoughts, we interpret the combined effects of serotonin in terms of pruning a tree of possible decisions, ...[more]