Minds made for sharing: Initiating joint attention recruits reward-related neurocircuitry

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2702-2715

  Schilbach, Leonhard ^a   Wilms, Marcus ^b   Eickhoff, Simon B ^b,c   Romanzetti, Sandro ^b   Tepest, Ralf ^a   Bente, Gary ^a   Shah, N Jon ^b   Fink, Gereon R ^a,b   Vogeley, Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN; COGNITION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COORDINATION; CORPUS STRIATUM; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT ATTENTION; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; REWARD; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CONCEPT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTIVATION; NERVE NET; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REWARD;

BRAIN; EYE TRACKING; NEURONS;

ANIMATED CHARACTERS; COGNITIVE PROCESS; EYE TRACKING DEVICES; GAZE BEHAVIOURS; HEDONIC ASPECTS; HUMAN COGNITION; JOINT ATTENTION; NEURAL CORRELATE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STRIATUM;

MOTIVATION;

EID: 78649486026     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21401     Document Type: Article

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