Human avoidance and approach learning: Evidence for overlapping neural systems and experiential avoidance modulation of avoidance neurocircuitry

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 225, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 437-448

  Schlund, Michael W ^a,b,c   Magee, Sandy ^a   Hudgins, Caleb D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Approach; Avoidance; Experiential avoidance; Learning; Negative reinforcement; Positive reinforcement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MONEY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LEARNING; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 80052970316     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.07.054     Document Type: Article

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