Reward system and temporal pole contributions to affective evaluation during a first person shooter video game

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Violent content in video games evokes many concerns but there is little research concerning its rewarding aspects. It was demonstrated that playing a video game leads to striatal dopamine release. It is unclear, however, which aspect...

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Main Authors: Weber René, Klasen Martin, Mathiak Krystyna A, Ackermann Hermann, Shergill Sukhwinder S, Mathiak Klaus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2011-07-01
Series:BMC Neuroscience
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2202/12/66