Effort increases sensitivity to reward and loss magnitude in the human brain

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 342-349

  Hernandez Lallement, Julen ^a,b   Kuss, Katarina ^a,c   Trautner, Peter ^a   Weber, Bernd ^a,c   Falk, Armin ^a   Fliessbach, Klaus ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^d GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Effort; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Locus of control; Reward processing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LOCUS OF CONTROL; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REWARD; REWARD PROCESSING; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EFFORT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; LOCUS OF CONTROL; REWARD PROCESSING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84895130137     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss147     Document Type: Article

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