Dorsolateral Striatum Engagement Interferes with Early Discrimination Learning

作者：Bergstrom Hadley C^*; Lipkin Anna M; Lieberman Abby G; Pinard Courtney R; Gunduz Cinar Ozge; Brockway Emma T; Taylor William W; Nonaka Mio; Bukalo Olena; Wills Tiffany A; Rubio F Javier; Li Xuan; Pickens Charles L; Winder Danny G; Holmes Andrew

来源：Cell Reports, 2018, 23(8): 2264-2272.

DOI：10.1016/j.celrep.2018.04.081

In current models, learning the relationship between environmental stimuli and the outcomes of actions involves both stimulus-driven and goal-directed systems, mediated in part by the DLS and DMS, respectively. However, though these models emphasize the importance of the DLS in governing actions after extensive experience has accumulated, there is growing evidence of DLS engagement from the onset of training. Here, we used in vivo photosilencing to reveal that DLS recruitment interferes with early touchscreen discrimination learning. We also show that the direct output pathway of the DLS is preferentially recruited and causally involved in early learning and find that silencing the normal contribution of the DLS produces plasticity-related alterations in a PL-DMS circuit. These data provide further evidence suggesting that the DLS is recruited in the construction of stimulus-elicited actions that ultimately automate behavior and liberate cognitive resources for other demands, but with a cost to performance at the outset of learning.

• 出版日期2018-5-22
• 单位NIH