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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Systems Neuroscience

Background:

  • The dorsolateral striatum (DLS) plays a crucial role in habit formation.
  • The precise circuit mechanisms within the DLS that underlie habit learning are not fully understood.
  • The DLS transforms sensorimotor cortical input into signals for direct and indirect basal ganglia pathways.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how habit formation alters the input-output function of the DLS.
  • To identify neural correlates of habitual behavior within DLS projection neuron populations.

Main Methods:

  • Imaging cortically evoked firing in large populations of pathway-defined striatal projection neurons (SPNs).
  • Correlating neural activity patterns with behavioral measures of habitual action.

Main Results:

  • Habitual behavior correlated with enhanced DLS output to both direct and indirect pathways.
  • Action-promoting direct pathway SPNs showed a tendency to fire before indirect pathway SPNs during habitual behavior.
  • Habit suppression was associated with a decrease in direct pathway output.
  • Observed neural effects were broadly distributed across the DLS.

Conclusions:

  • The striatum modulates incoming activity in a pathway-specific manner to facilitate habitual motor behaviors.
  • These findings reveal circuit-level changes in the DLS associated with the transition to habitual action.