The debate over dopamine’s role in reward: the case for incentive salience
Berridge's paper is the standing statement of the incentive salience position, that dopamine mediates wanting rather than liking. No abstract is published for it in OpenAlex, Crossref or Semantic Scholar and this publication has not read the full text, so the summary here does not go beyond what the title asserts and what the vault's other Berridge material supports. The claim, as this vault holds it, is that dopamine systems attribute incentive salience to reward cues, generating pull towards a reward, and that hedonic impact, the pleasure taken in the reward once obtained, is mediated separately and can move independently. The consequence carried into this publication's articles is that any study which raises pleasure ratings and motivation together with a dopaminergic manipulation cannot, on those data alone, say which of the two it moved. See the companion paper, Pecina and colleagues (2003), for the demonstration.
Berridge's paper is the standing statement of the incentive salience position, that dopamine mediates wanting rather than liking. No abstract is published for it in OpenAlex, Crossref or Semantic Scholar and this publication has not read the full text, so the summary here does not go beyond what the title asserts and what the vault's other Berridge material supports. The claim, as this vault holds it, is that dopamine systems attribute incentive salience to reward cues, generating pull towards a reward, and that hedonic impact, the pleasure taken in the reward once obtained, is mediated separately and can move independently. The consequence carried into this publication's articles is that any study which raises pleasure ratings and motivation together with a dopaminergic manipulation cannot, on those data alone, say which of the two it moved. See the companion paper, Pecina and colleagues (2003), for the demonstration.
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Berridge, K. C. (2007). 'The debate over dopamine's role in reward: the case for incentive salience.' Psychopharmacology, 191(3), 391-431. The argument that dopamine mediates incentive salience, the wanting, rather than hedonic impact, the liking. doi:10.1007/s00213-006-0578-x
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