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J Neurophysiol (October 10, 2007). doi:10.1152/jn.00779.2007
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Submitted on July 11, 2007
Accepted on October 8, 2007

History- and current instruction-based coding of forthcoming behavioral outcomes in the striatum

Hiroshi Yamada1*, Naoyuki Matsumoto1, and Minoru Kimura1

1 Physiology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: hyamada{at}koto.kpu-m.ac.jp.

Animals optimize behaviors by predicting future critical events based on histories of actions and their outcomes. When behavioral outcomes like reward and aversion are signaled by current external cues, actions are directed to acquire the reward and avoid the aversion. The basal ganglia are thought to be the brain locus for reward-based adaptive action planning and learning. To understand the role of striatum in coding outcomes of forthcoming behavioral responses, we addressed two specific questions. First, how are the histories of reward and aversion used for encoding forthcoming outcomes in the striatum during a series of instructed behavioral responses? Second, how are the behavioral responses and their instructed outcomes represented in the striatum? We recorded discharges of 163 presumed projection neurons in the striatum while monkeys performed a visually instructed lever-release task for reward, aversion, and sound outcomes, whose occurrences could be estimated by their histories. Before outcome instruction, discharge rates of a subset of neurons activated in this epoch showed positive or negative regression slopes with reward history (24/44), that is, to the number of trials since the last reward trial, which changed in parallel with reward probability of current trials. The history effect was also observed for the aversion outcome but in far fewer neurons (3/44). Once outcomes were instructed in the same task, neurons selectively encoded the outcomes before and after behavioral responses (reward; 46/70, aversion; 6/70, sound; 6/70). The history- and current instruction-based coding of forthcoming behavioral outcomes in the striatum might underlie outcome-oriented behavioral modulation.




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