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Sub-second Dopamine and Serotonin Signaling in Human Striatum during Perceptual Decision-Making.


ABSTRACT: Recent animal research indicates that dopamine and serotonin, neuromodulators traditionally linked to appetitive and aversive processes, are also involved in sensory inference and decisions based on such inference. We tested this hypothesis in humans by monitoring sub-second striatal dopamine and serotonin signaling during a visual motion discrimination task that separates sensory uncertainty from decision difficulty in a factorial design. Caudate nucleus recordings (n = 4) revealed multi-scale encoding: in three participants, serotonin tracked sensory uncertainty, and, in one participant, both dopamine and serotonin tracked deviations from expected trial transitions within our factorial design. Putamen recordings (n = 1) supported a cognition-action separation between caudate nucleus and putamen-a striatal sub-division unique to primates-with both dopamine and serotonin tracking decision times. These first-of-their-kind observations in the human brain reveal a role for sub-second dopamine and serotonin signaling in non-reward-based aspects of cognition and action.

SUBMITTER: Bang D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7736619 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Sub-second Dopamine and Serotonin Signaling in Human Striatum during Perceptual Decision-Making.

Bang Dan D   Kishida Kenneth T KT   Lohrenz Terry T   White Jason P JP   Laxton Adrian W AW   Tatter Stephen B SB   Fleming Stephen M SM   Montague P Read PR  

Neuron 20201012 5


Recent animal research indicates that dopamine and serotonin, neuromodulators traditionally linked to appetitive and aversive processes, are also involved in sensory inference and decisions based on such inference. We tested this hypothesis in humans by monitoring sub-second striatal dopamine and serotonin signaling during a visual motion discrimination task that separates sensory uncertainty from decision difficulty in a factorial design. Caudate nucleus recordings (n = 4) revealed multi-scale  ...[more]

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