The second, involving the striatum, is called habit learning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Study: TV Slows the Learning Process | Impact Lab] Reference

The results showed increased activity in the striatum, which is a part of the brain associated with the way we experience reward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Ariely: The Upside of Irrationality and Revenge] Reference

"Our animal work has shown that the striatum is a kind of learning machine - it becomes active during habit formation and skill acquisition," Graybiel said.    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference

PET scans showed the participants' brains pumped out more dopamine in a region called the striatum when listening to favorite pieces of music than when hearing other pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brain Responds To Music The Same Way As Eating] Reference

PET scans showed the participants' brains pumped out more dopamine in a region called the striatum when listening to favourite pieces of music than when hearing other pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [CBC | Top Stories News] Reference

The white matter of the corpus striatum is a bottleneck.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

When someone loses money, activation in the striatum decreases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scott Huettel: Anatomy of a Tough Decision] Reference

But it turns out that my ventral striatum likes The Wire even more.    From Wordnik.com.  [20 « July « 2008 « Niqnaq] Reference

The region including the two nuclei is therefore called the corpus striatum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

In people who stutter, it is believed the striatum is bombarded with too much dopamine.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2007] Reference

When someone gains money, activation increases in an area of the brain called the striatum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scott Huettel: Anatomy of a Tough Decision] Reference

Eventually, those environmental cues trigger the striatum to make some behaviors almost automatic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Bad Habits Get Wired Into Our Brains] Reference

What's more, those who had a high level of striatum activation punished others to a greater degree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Ariely: The Upside of Irrationality and Revenge] Reference

Your medial orbito-frontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, and ventral striatum are all activated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Re-Thinking Jeffrey Goldberg] Reference

And what they found is that an area of the brain -- the striatum, that you see right there, it actually lit up.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 21, 2008] Reference

Evidence for a tonic inhibition of food consumption and body weight by the striatum in female rats: Effects of castration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

"Nonhedonic" food motivation in humans involves dopamine in the dorsal striatum and methylphenidate amplifies this effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Hyman, MD: Food Addiction: Could It Explain Why 70 Percent of Americans Are Fat?] Reference

"Deficits in development of synaptic plasticity in rat dorsal striatum following prenatal and neonatal exposure to low-dose bisphenol A.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sarah Janssen: BPA Ban in California Passes, Despite Industry Spin] Reference

According to Stanford's Shiv, prior research shows that people with increased sensitivity in their ventral striatum are often extroverted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Impulsive Deciders] Reference

Normally, enhanced cortex connectivity with the striatum would provide increased flexibility, working memory capacity and executive control.    From Wordnik.com.  [February 2007] Reference

Within the curve of the caudate-nucleus, corpus-striatum, and lentiform-nucleus complex lies a mass of gray matter that represents the thalamus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

I found that the brain region needed to remember the location of a barrier is the striatum, the evolutionary ancestor of the human "basal ganglia.".    From Wordnik.com.  ['In the River of Consciousness': An Exchange] Reference

The dopamine signal then engages attention and motivation by telling the striatum to attend and respond mainly to whatever signals came just before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pleasure] Reference

As a result, the scientists observed increased activity in those parts of the brain, such as the striatum, involved with the expectation of rewards.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Uncertainty Cripples Us] Reference

“Expression of Foxp2, a gene involved in speech and language, in the developing and adult striatum”, Journal of Neuroscience Research, 73 (1): 61-72.    From Wordnik.com.  [Innateness and Language] Reference

A dopamine-rich part of the brain named the striatum memorizes rituals and routines that are linked to getting a particular reward, explains NIDA's Volkow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Bad Habits Get Wired Into Our Brains] Reference

Interestingly enough, schizophrenia with its audio and visual hallucinations (positive symptoms) is linked to excessive dopamine in the brain's striatum (2).    From Wordnik.com.  [Mailbag Monday: Edition "Religion is dopaminergic."] Reference

Dopamine surged in one part of the striatum during the 15 seconds leading up to a thrilling moment, and a different part when that musical highlight finally arrived.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brain Responds To Music The Same Way As Eating] Reference

The right amygdala is more in tune to the outside environment, communicating with the visual cortex, which controls vision, and the striatum, which coordinates motor actions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference

+1-BACE1 double-stained cells in the ischemic striatum, as well as the level of UBB.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

While this shift from ventral to dorsal striatum depends to some degree on "pharmacology".    From Wordnik.com.  [MIT World: Recent Updates] Reference

CalDAG-GEFI Down-regulation in the striatum as a neuroprotective change in Huntington's Disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

They also found that overall striatum activity increased with the total amount of money in stock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily News & Analysis] Reference

Studies show that dopamine in the dorsal striatum is causally involved in establishing drug-seeking behavior in rats.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIT World: Recent Updates] Reference

It did not matter how much money was gained, since small gains stimulated the volunteers 'striatum as much as large gains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily News & Analysis] Reference

This model fits with the fact that some neurons in the striatum become more active the more pleasure we expect from an experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Whereas in "poor" people, the vmPFC and the ventral striatum only responded to getting money, not to seeing the rich getting even richer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Technoccult] Reference