A free-choice premium in the basal ganglia

Yael Niv; Angela Langdon; Angela Radulescu

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2014.09.005

A free-choice premium in the basal ganglia

Yael Niv, Angela Langdon, Angela Radulescu

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Apparently, the act of free choice confers value: when selecting between an item that you had previously chosen and an identical item that you had been forced to take, the former is often preferred. What could be the neural underpinnings of this free-choice bias in decision making? An elegant study recently published in Neuron suggests that enhanced reward learning in the basal ganglia may be the culprit.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	4-5
Number of pages	2
Journal	Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Volume	19
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2014.09.005
State	Published - Jan 1 2015

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Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience

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