The ventral striatum dissociates information expectation, reward anticipation, and reward receipt

^aSchool of Psychology, University of Surrey, GU2 7XH Guildford, United Kingdom;
^bCenter for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195 Berlin, Germany;
^cComputational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037;
^dTemporal Dynamics of Learning Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093;
^eDepartment of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182;
^fComputer Science & Engineering Department, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093

Contributed by Terrence J. Sejnowski, March 28, 2020 (sent for review March 17, 2016; reviewed by Jacqueline Gottlieb and Read Montague)

Footnotes

↵¹F.F. and J.D.N. contributed equally to this work.
↵²To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: flavia.filimon{at}gmail.com, jonathan.d.nelson{at}gmail.com, or terry{at}salk.edu.

Author contributions: F.F. and J.D.N. designed research; J.D.N. performed research; F.F. and J.D.N. analyzed data; and F.F., J.D.N., T.J.S., M.I.S., and G.W.C. wrote the paper.
Reviewers: J.G., Columbia University; and R.M., Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, Virginia Institute of Technology Carilion Research Institute.
The authors declare no competing interest.
Data deposition: The data, stimulus, and analysis files are permanently archived and publicly available for download on the Open Science Framework, doi:10.17605/osf.io/aexv9 or https://osf.io/aexv9/.
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