Philip Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel, Kelly Gaetani, Lilith Zeng, Gabrielle Weidemann, Gavan P McNally
Punishment learning is learning of the causal relationship between responses and their adverse or undesirable consequences. Here, we review our translational approach for understanding whether, when, and how individuals differ in what they learn during punishment, and how these differences in learning may drive persistent poor or maladaptive decisions. We show that individual differences in punishment insensitivity can emerge from differences between individuals in what they learn about punishment (instrumental contingency knowledge), rather than differences in aversive valuation, reward valuation, general (impulsivity), or specific (habit) behavioral control...
April 18, 2024: Behavioral Neuroscience