Distinct neural responses to conscious versus unconscious monetary reward cues

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 5578-5586

  Bijleveld, Erik ^a,b   Custers, Ruud ^a,c   Van der Stigchel, Stefan ^a   Aarts, Henk ^a   Pas, Pascal ^d   Vink, Matthijs ^d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognition; Consciousness; Mental rotation; Motivation; Reward; Task performance; Ventral striatum

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR CORTEX; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EGO DEVELOPMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONSCIOUSNESS; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; REACTION TIME; REWARD; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84911986543     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22571     Document Type: Article

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