Knowing good from bad: Differential activation of human cortical areas by positive and negative outcomes

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3161-3168

  Nieuwenhuis, Sander ^a   Slagter, Heleen A ^b   Von Alting Geusau, Niels J ^a   Heslenfeld, Dirk J ^a   Holroyd, Clay B ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cingulate cortex; ERP; Feedback; fMRI; Human

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CAUDAL ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX; CINGULATE GYRUS; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; POSTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; RIGHT SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SCALP; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BIOFEEDBACK (PSYCHOLOGY); BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REWARD;

EID: 21444453526     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04152.x     Document Type: Article

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