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Choosing to make an effort : the role of striatum in signaling physical effort of a chosen action
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Kurniawan, I. T., Seymour, B., Talmi, D., Yoshida, W., Chater, Nick and Dolan, R. J. (2010) Choosing to make an effort : the role of striatum in signaling physical effort of a chosen action. Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol.104 (No.1). pp. 313-321. doi:10.1152/jn.00027.2010 ISSN 0022-3077.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00027.2010
Abstract
The possibility that we will have to invest effort influences our future choice behavior. Indeed deciding whether an action is actually worth taking is a key element in the expression of human apathy or inertia. There is a well developed literature on brain activity related to the anticipation of effort, but how effort affects actual choice is less well understood. Furthermore, prior work is largely restricted to mental as opposed to physical effort or has confounded temporal with effortful costs. Here we investigated choice behavior and brain activity, using functional magnetic resonance imaging, in a study where healthy participants are required to make decisions between effortful gripping, where the factors of force (high and low) and reward (high and low) were varied, and a choice of merely holding a grip device for minimal monetary reward. Behaviorally, we show that force level influences the likelihood of choosing an effortful grip. We observed greater activity in the putamen when participants opt to grip an option with low effort compared with when they opt to grip an option with high effort. The results suggest that, over and above a nonspecific role in movement anticipation and salience, the putamen plays a crucial role in computations for choice that involves effort costs.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Neurophysiology | ||||
| Publisher: | American Physiological Society | ||||
| ISSN: | 0022-3077 | ||||
| Official Date: | 1 July 2010 | ||||
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| Volume: | Vol.104 | ||||
| Number: | No.1 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 8 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 313-321 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1152/jn.00027.2010 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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