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Caution Influences Avoidance and Approach Behaviors Differently

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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 42, 期 30, 页码 5899-5915

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SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1892-21.2022

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approach; avoidance; basal ganglia; frontal cortex; midbrain

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Conflicting goals can affect actions, but the same action can have different consequences depending on the situation. In a study with mice, adding a rule that punishes unsignaled actions delayed the timing of signaled actions, indicating increased caution. Caution was influenced by task signaling, contingency, and reinforcement type. Interestingly, caution persisted in avoidance motivated by danger but was only temporary in approach motivated by reward. Caution developed independently of the frontal cortex or basal ganglia output circuits.
While conflict between incompatible goals has well-known effects on actions, in many situations the same action may produce harmful or beneficial consequences during different periods in a nonconflicting manner, e.g., crossing the street during a red or green light. To avoid harm, subjects must be cautious to inhibit the action specifically when it is punished, as in passive avoidance, but act when it is beneficial, as in active avoidance or active approach. In mice of both sexes performing a signaled action to avoid harm or obtain reward, we found that addition of a new rule that punishes the action when it occurs unsignaled delays the timing of the signaled action in an apparent sign of increased caution. Caution depended on task signaling, contingency, and reinforcement type. Interestingly, caution became persistent when the signaled action was avoidance motivated by danger but was only transient when it was approach motivated by reward. Although caution is represented by the activity of neurons in the midbrain, it developed independent of frontal cortex or basal ganglia output circuits. These results indicate that caution disrupts actions in different ways depending on the motivational state and may develop from unforeseen brain circuits.

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