Reward facilitates tactile judgments and modulates hemodynamic responses in human primary somatosensory cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 33, 2008, Pages 8161-8168

  Pleger, Burkhard ^a,c   Blankenburg, Felix ^a,b   Ruff, Christian C ^a,b   Driver, Jon ^a,b   Dolan, Raymond J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Reward; Sensory perception; Somatosensory cortex; Tactile judgment; Ventral striatum

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TOUCH;

ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REWARD; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

EID: 51149084998     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1093-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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