Influence of motivation on control hierarchy in the human frontal cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 3207-3217

  Bahlmann, Jörg ^a,b   Aarts, Esther ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive control; Control hierarchy; fMRI; Lateral frontal cortex; Motivation; Reward

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BOLD SIGNAL; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MOTIVATION; MOTOR CONTROL; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; REGION OF INTEREST; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTRAL PREMOTOR CORTEX; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; FRONTAL LOBE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REWARD; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTIVATION; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; REWARD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923039474     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2389-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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