Abstract
The dorsolateral striatum plays a major role in stimulus-response habits that are learned in the experimental laboratory. Here, we use meta-analytic procedures to identify the neural circuits activated during the execution of stimulus-response behaviours acquired in everyday-life and those activated by habits acquired in the laboratory. In the case of everyday-life habits we dissociated motor and associative components. We found that motor-dominant stimulus-response associations developed outside the laboratory engaged posterior dorsal putamen, supplementary motor area (SMA) and cerebellum. Associative components were also represented in the posterior putamen. Meanwhile, newly learned habits relied more on the anterior putamen with activation expanding to caudate and nucleus accumbens. Importantly, common neural representations for both naturalistic and laboratory based habits were found in posterior left and anterior right putamen. Our findings suggest a common striatal substrate for behaviours with significant stimulus-response associations, independently of whether they were acquired in the laboratory or everyday-life.
Competing Interest Statement
The authors have declared no competing interest.
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