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The action selection, or gating function of the basal ganglia is dependent upon the integrity of the dopaminergic reward system (see Volume I for an illustration of dopaminergic pathways [2]). At base, this is essentially a reinforcement or instrumental learning system that works in the following fashion. Whenever a “stimulus” is represented (either imagined or concretely perceived) within the sensory cortices, this generates “candidate actions” or “behavioral choices” within the premotor cortex; this occurs because (as indicated in a section above that described the ventral and dorsal brain networks), all of the essential properties of “objects” are represented in the same sensory and motor brain circuits that were recruited or activated when the information about those objects was initially acquired. These sensory and premotor cortical regions project to the striatum, through the direct and indirect pathways.
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Koziol, L.F. (2014). Cognitive Control, Reward, and the Basal Ganglia. In: The Myth of Executive Functioning. SpringerBriefs in Neuroscience(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04477-4_18
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