Reward activates stimulus-specific and task-dependent representations in visual association cortices

Humans reliably learn which actions lead to rewards. One prominent question is how credit is assigned to environmental stimuli that are acted upon. Recent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have provided evidence that representations of rewarded stimuli are activated upon reward de...

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Main Authors: Schiffer, A, Muller, T, Yeung, N, Waszak, F
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Society for Neuroscience 2014