Appetitive and aversive taste conditioning in a computer game influences real-world decision making and subsequent activation in insular cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1046-1051

  McCabe, Jonathan A ^a   Tobler, Phillipe N ^a   Schultz, Wolfram ^a   Dickinson, Anthony ^a   Lupson, Victoria ^a   Fletcher, Paul C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aversion; Classical conditioning; Imaging; Insula; Motivation; Reward

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; APPETITE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER GAME; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CYCLING; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSULA; MALE; MOOD; MOTIVATION; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASTE AVERSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; REWARD; TASTE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59649119751     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3938-08.2009     Document Type: Article

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