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SUBMITTER: Cooper JC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3576883 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of cognitive neuroscience 20110803 1
The dorsal striatum plays a key role in the learning and expression of instrumental reward associations that are acquired through direct experience. However, not all learning about instrumental actions require direct experience. Instead, humans and other animals are also capable of acquiring instrumental actions by observing the experiences of others. In this study, we investigated the extent to which human dorsal striatum is involved in observational as well as experiential instrumental reward ...[more]