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SUBMITTER: White JK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5027277 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
White J Kael JK Monosov Ilya E IE
Nature communications 20160914
To learn, obtain reward and survive, humans and other animals must monitor, approach and act on objects that are associated with variable or unknown rewards. However, the neuronal mechanisms that mediate behaviours aimed at uncertain objects are poorly understood. Here we demonstrate that a set of neurons in an internal-capsule bordering regions of the primate dorsal striatum, within the putamen and caudate nucleus, signal the uncertainty of object-reward associations. Their uncertainty response ...[more]