Something funny happened to reward

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 193-194

  Berns, Gregory S ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; NEUROLOGY;

HUMAN REWARD SYSTEMS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BRAIN REGION; CORPUS STRIATUM; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMOR; HYPOTHALAMUS; LANGUAGE; LIMBIC CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; REWARD; SEMANTICS; SHORT SURVEY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; LAUGHTER; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NERVE NET; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; REWARD; WIT AND HUMOR;

EID: 2142816806     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2004.03.007     Document Type: Short Survey

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