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. 2011 Aug 30;5:66. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2011.00066

Table 1.

Habit learning criteria within dorsal corticostriatal loops.

Criterion Executive Visual Motor
QUALITATIVE DIFFERENCES
Inflexible defined as reinforcement based1 Mixed ? Yes
Unconscious2 Mixed ? Mixed
Automatic: dual task independent3 No ? Yes
Automatic: PDP exclusion intrusions4 No ? Yes
Reinforcer devaluation5 No ? Yes
SLOW OR INCREMENTAL: COMPUTATIONAL MEASURES6
Reward prediction error Strong Weak Weak
Value Weak Strong Strong
SLOW OR INCREMENTAL: SIMPLE BEHAVIORAL MEASURES
Learning rate (slope)7 Strong Weak Weak
Learning asymptote Weak Strong Strong
Changes beyond asymptote8 Mixed ? Yes

1Daw et al. (2005) and Lopez-Paniagua and Seger (2011).

2Seger et al. (2011) and Pessiglione et al. (2008).

3Poldrack et al. (2005), Foerde et al. (2006), and Waldmann and Ashby (2011).

4Destrebecqz et al. (2005).

5Balleine et al. (2009) and Yin and Knowlton (2006).

6Haruno and Kawato (2006) and Seger et al. (2010).

7Brasted and Wise, 2004, Williams and Eskandar (2006), and Seger et al. (2010).

8Grol et al. (2006), Helie et al. (2010, and Waldschmidt and Ashby (2011).