Just watching the game ain't enough: Striatal fMRI reward responses to successes and failures in a video game during active and vicarious playing

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Katsyri, Jari ^a,b   Hari, Riitta ^a   Ravaja, Niklas ^a,b,c   Nummenmaa, Lauri ^a,d  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d TURKU PET CENTRE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Emotion; Motivation; Natural stimulation; Reward system; Striatum; Video game playing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAME; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MONEY; MOTIVATION; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PLAY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PUNISHMENT; PUTAMEN; REWARD; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; VIDEO GAME;

EID: 84933673401     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00278     Document Type: Article

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