title: A free-choice premium in the basal ganglia.
abstract: Apparently, the act of free choice confers value: when selecting between an item that you had previously chosen and an identical item that you had been forced to take, the former is often preferred. What could be the neural underpinnings of this free-choice bias in decision making? An elegant study recently published in Neuron suggests that enhanced reward learning in the basal ganglia may be the culprit.
authors.affiliation: Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Psychology Department, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA. Electronic address: yael@princeton.edu.
authors.forename: Yael
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Niv
authors.affiliation: Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Psychology Department, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Langdon
authors.affiliation: Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Psychology Department, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Radulescu
mesh_terms: D002755:Choice Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology