Novel way to study the transition from #goals to habits: motivating animals by palatability rather than biological need. Authors find spontaneous and abrupt transitions to #habits, blocked by dorsolateral striatal lesions. Beyond the classic #devaluation experiment! Awesome ✨stuff by Kuchibhotla lab #neuroscience https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.05.547783v1