Dopamine and cognitive control: The prospect of monetary gains influences the balance between flexibility and stability in a set-shifting paradigm

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3661-3668

  Müller, Johannes ^a   Dreisbach, Gesine ^a   Goschke, Thomas ^a   Hensch, Tilman ^a   Lesch, Klaus Peter ^b   Brocke, Burkhard ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Executive functions; Humans; Norepinephrine; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; DISTRACTIBILITY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; ATTITUDE; COGNITION; CUES; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REWARD;

EID: 36949021051     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05949.x     Document Type: Article

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