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SUBMITTER: Talmi D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2636904 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Talmi Deborah D Seymour Ben B Dayan Peter P Dolan Raymond J RJ
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20080101 2
The vigor with which a participant performs actions that produce valuable outcomes is subject to a complex set of motivational influences. Many of these are believed to involve the amygdala and the nucleus accumbens, which act as an interface between limbic and motor systems. One prominent class of influences is called pavlovian-instrumental transfer (PIT), in which the motivational characteristics of a predictor influence the vigor of an action with respect to which it is formally completely in ...[more]