Reward Motivation Enhances Task Coding in Frontoparietal Cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1647-1659

  Etzel, Joset A ^a   Cole, Michael W ^a,b   Zacks, Jeffrey M ^a   Kay, Kendrick N ^a   Braver, Todd S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive control; fMRI; motivation; MVPA; prefrontal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTOPARIETAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; LATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEUROIMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN MAPPING; FRONTAL LOBE; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REWARD; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84963804691     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu327     Document Type: Article

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