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The disunity of Pavlovian and instrumental values

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2008

Sean B. Ostlund  and
Bernard W. Balleine
Sean B. Ostlund
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Bernard W. Balleine
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095. sostlund@ucla.eduballeine@psych.ucla.edu
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Abstract

A central theme of the unified framework for addiction advanced by Redish et al. is that there exists a common value or incentive process controlling Pavlovian and instrumental conditioning. Here we briefly review evidence from a variety of sources demonstrating that these incentive processes are in fact independent. Clearly the influence of Pavlovian predictors and goal values on choice offer distinct potential targets for pathologies of decision-making.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , August 2008 , pp. 456 - 457
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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