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Parsing reward.

Kent C Berridge1, Terry E Robinson

  • 1Department of Psychology, Biopsychology Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1109, USA. berridge@umich.edu

Trends in Neurosciences
|September 2, 2003
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Neuroscience advances allow brain manipulation, enhancing reward research. Future progress requires dissecting reward into learning, affect, and motivation components to understand brain circuit interactions.

Area of Science:

  • Neurobiology
  • Neuroscience of Reward

Background:

  • Neurobiology enables precise manipulation of brain molecules, neurons, and systems.
  • This has driven significant progress in understanding the neuroscience of reward.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To argue that future advances in reward neuroscience necessitate a sophisticated deconstruction of reward into its core psychological components.
  • To identify how distinct brain circuits mediate these psychological components and their interactions.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis and theoretical integration of existing neurobiological and psychological findings.
  • Proposing a framework for dissecting reward into learning, affect, and motivation.

Main Results:

  • Reward is proposed to comprise three key psychological components: learning, affect (liking/pleasure), and motivation (wanting/goals).

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  • Different brain circuits are hypothesized to mediate these distinct components.

    • Conclusions:

    • Further progress in reward neuroscience depends on understanding the interplay between specific brain circuits and the psychological components of reward.
    • A more granular approach is needed to link neural mechanisms with subjective experiences of reward.