Minoru Kimura

TL;DR: Representation of action values in the striatum is suggested, which can guide action selection in the basal ganglia circuit in monkeys who chose between left and right handle turns.

TL;DR: It is concluded that, during the acquisition of a sensorimotor association, TANs widely distributed through the striatum become responsive to sensory stimuli that induce conditioned behavior.

TL;DR: The dual correlated coding of motivation and REEs suggested the involvement of the dopamine system, both in reinforcement in more elaborate ways than currently proposed and in motivational function in reward-based decision-making and learning.

TL;DR: Functional magnetic resonance imaging of a stochastic decision task involving monetary rewards, in which subjects had to learn behaviors involving different task difficulties that were controlled by probability, found that activity in the caudate nucleus was correlated with short-term reward and paralleled the magnitude of a subject's behavioral change during learning.

TL;DR: The centre médian-parafascicular (CM-Pf) complex plays a specific and essential role in the process of attentional orienting to external events occurring on the contralateral side, probably through the projection of primary outputs to the striatum, which is involved in the action-selection mechanisms of the basal ganglia.