Neural mechanisms underlying the induction and relief of perceptual curiosity

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue FEBRUARY 2012, 2012, Pages

  Jepma, Marieke ^a   Verdonschot, Rinus G ^a,b   van Steenbergen, Henk ^a   Rombouts, Serge A R B ^a,c   Nieuwenhuis, Sander ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arousal; Curiosity; fMRI; Memory; Reward processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTUAL CURIOSITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84857948175     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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