Ventral pallidum encodes relative reward value earlier and more robustly than nucleus accumbens

In the ventral basal ganglia circuit, the ventral pallidum (VP) receives major inputs from the nucleus accumbens (NAc) and is involved in reward processing. Here, the authors report that, contrary to the accepted model, signals related to the relative value of reward in VP emerge before NAc and are...

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Main Authors: David Ottenheimer, Jocelyn M. Richard, Patricia H. Janak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06849-z