The neural underpinnings of how reward associations can both guide and misguide attention

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 26, 2011, Pages 9752-9759

  Krebs, Ruth M ^a,b   Boehler, Carsten N ^a,b   Egner, Tobias ^a   Woldorff, Marty G ^a,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL; NEURAL UNDERPINNING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROOP TEST; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REWARD; STROOP TEST;

EID: 79959965733     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0732-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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