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Striatal activity in concept learning.
Full Abstract
Striatal learning systems have been implicated in learning relationships between visual stimuli and outcomes. In the present study, the activity of the striatum during visual concept learning in humans was examined by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Participants performed three concept-learning tasks and a baseline task. The participants were trained to criterion before fMRI scanning on two tasks, verbal and implicit. In the verbal task, classification could be performed on the basis of a simple verbal rule, but in the implicit task, there was no simple verbal rule. The novel-implicit learning task, in which an implicit structure was used, was not encountered by the participants before scanning. Across all three concept-learning tasks, there was significant activation in the striatum, in comparison with the baseline task. The striatum was recruited similarly in classification when the participants had different levels of expertise (novel-implicit vs. verbal and implicit) and were able to verbalize their learning to different degrees (verbal vs. implicit and novel-implicit). There was left lateral occipital activation when learning was implicit (implicit and novel-implicit), but not when learning was easily verbalized (verbal).
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Author information
Author/s: Seger, Carol A (CA); Cincotta, Corinna M (CM);
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado 80523, USA. seger@lamar.colostate.edu
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article
Journal: Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience (Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Jun; vol 2 (issue 2) : pp 149-61
Dates: Created 2002/11/28; Completed 2003/01/10; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 12455682, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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