Dopamine and reward-related vigor in younger and older human participants
Hird, E. J.; Beierholm, U.; De Boer, L.; Axelsson, J.; Riklund, K.; Nyberg, L.; Beckman, L.; Guitart-Masip, M.
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Vigor reflects how motivated one is to respond to a stimulus. We previously showed that humans are more vigorous when more reward is available on average, and that this relationship is modulated by the dopamine precursor levodopa. Dopamine signalling and probabilistic reward learning degrade with age, so the relationship between vigor and reward should change with age. We test this and assess whether the relationship between vigor and reward correlates with D1 dopamine receptor availability measured using Positron Emission Tomography. We measured response times of 30 older and 30 younger subjects during an oddball discrimination task where rewards varied systematically between trial. Reward rate had a similar impact on the vigor of both groups. We observed a weak positive association across subjects between ventral striatal dopamine receptor availability and effect of average reward rate on response time, which was in the opposite direction to our prediction. Overall, the effect of reward on response vigor is similar between younger and older humans and is weakly sensitive to dopamine D1 receptor availability.
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