Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Differential coding of reward and movement information in the dorsomedial striatal direct and indirect pathways

  • Jung Hwan Shin,
  • Dohoung Kim,
  • Min Whan Jung

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02817-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Classically the direct and indirect pathways of basal ganglia are understood to have opposing roles in movement and reward learning, but recent work suggests a more complicated view. Here the authors further study indirect and direct pathway neurons, in the context of a probabilistic reward task.