Causes of social reward differences encoded in human brain

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1403-1412

  Vostroknutov, Alexander ^a   Tobler, Philippe N ^b,c   Rustichini, Aldo ^d,e  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Merit; Rewards coding; Skill luck

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SKILL;

ADULT; BRAIN; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTIVATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REWARD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857303804     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00298.2011     Document Type: Article

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