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. 2015 Jan;19(1):4-5.
doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2014.09.005. Epub 2014 Oct 2.

A free-choice premium in the basal ganglia

Yael Niv  1 , Angela Langdon  2 , Angela Radulescu  2
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A free-choice premium in the basal ganglia

Yael Niv et al. Trends Cogn Sci. 2015 Jan.
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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.

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