Amygdala tractography predicts functional connectivity and learning during feedback-guided decision-making

NeuroImage

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1396-1407

  Cohen, Michael X ^a,b   Elger, Christian E ^a   Weber, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Connectivity; Diffusion weighted imaging; Reward; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECISION MAKING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE TRACT; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; DECISION MAKING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REVERSAL LEARNING; REWARD;

EID: 37849028270     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.10.004     Document Type: Article

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