Balleine & O'Doherty (2010)

Human and Rodent Homologies in Action Control: Corticostriatal Determinants of Goal-Directed and Habitual Action

Neuropsychopharmacology, 35(1), 48-69

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Balleine, B. W., & O'Doherty, J. P. (2010). Human and Rodent Homologies in Action Control: Corticostriatal Determinants of Goal-Directed and Habitual Action. Neuropsychopharmacology, 35(1), 48-69. https://doi.org/10.1038/npp.2009.131

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Instrumental Learning Memory Systems

Definition

What marks instrumental learning is that the learner's own action, not merely a cue that precedes an outcome, becomes linked to the consequence; decision tasks in humans and rodents show separate contributions from action–outcome learning and stimulus–response learning
Neural substrate

Rodent and human studies trace action–outcome learning and stimulus–response habit learning to distinct corticostriatal networks that appear homologous across species, with early lesion work pointing to the rat prelimbic prefrontal cortex for learning which action produces which outcome