Anything you can do, you can do better: Neural substrates of incentive-based performance enhancement

PLoS Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Liljeholm, Mimi ^a   O'Doherty, John P ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CORPUS STRIATUM; HUMAN; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; BASAL GANGLION; MOTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

BASAL GANGLIA; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84857497010     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001272     Document Type: Article

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