Reward networks in the brain as captured by connectivity measures

An assortment of human behaviors is thought to be driven by rewards including reinforcement learning, novelty processing, learning, decision making, economic choice, incentive motivation, and addiction. In each case the ventral tegmental area / ventral striatum (Nucleus accumbens) system (VTA-VS) ha...

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Main Authors: Estela Camara, Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells, Zheng Ye, Thomas F Münte
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2009-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/neuro.01.034.2009/full