Reward system and temporal pole contributions to affective evaluation during a first person shooter video game

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mathiak, Krystyna A ^a,b,c   Klasen, Martin ^a,d   Weber, René ^e   Ackermann, Hermann ^c   Shergill, Sukhwinder S ^b   Mathiak, Klaus ^a,d,f  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d Julich Aachen Research Alliance JARA   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER; GERMANY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE AFFECT SCHEDULE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; REWARD; VIDEO GAME; VIOLENCE; VISUAL CORTEX; AFFECT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECREATION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; AFFECT; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REWARD; TEMPORAL LOBE; VIDEO GAMES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 79960199274     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-12-66     Document Type: Article

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