The striatal indirect pathway mediates hesitation
摘要
Hesitation—that is, pausing an action in the face of uncertainty—is ubiquitous in daily life, yet little is known about its underlying neural circuitry. We present a new experimental paradigm that reliably evokes hesitation in mice and find that hesitation is mediated by indirect, but not direct, pathway neurons in the dorsomedial striatum. These data establish a new role for the indirect pathway in suppressing action under uncertainty.