striatum

IPA: strˈaɪʌtʌm

(anatomy) The caudate nucleus and the lentiform nucleus considered as a single structure

Examples of "striatum" in Sentences

The second, involving the striatum, is called habit learning.
Such ingrained habits appear to rely on a brain region called the striatum.
The results showed increased activity in the striatum, which is a part of the brain associated with the way we experience reward.
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.
To look at this they looked at changes in gene expression in an area of the brain called the striatum, which is an area associated with the rewarding and reinforcing properties of drugs like cocaine.
In the meantime, we're still taking in information, but it's slipping past the pLPFC hub and into the striatum, which is responsible for habit learning, like driving a car or finding letters on a keyboard.
While contemplating a mishap, like a broken leg, activity in the rACC modulated signals in a region called the striatum that conveyed the good and bad of the event in question – biasing activity in a positive direction.