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SUBMITTER: Sharot T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2801060 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Current biology : CB 20091112 24
Human action is strongly influenced by expectations of pleasure. Making decisions, ranging from which products to buy to which job offer to accept, requires an estimation of how good (or bad) the likely outcomes will make us feel [1]. Yet, little is known about the biological basis of subjective estimations of future hedonic reactions. Here, we show that administration of a drug that enhances dopaminergic function (dihydroxy-L-phenylalanine; L-DOPA) during the imaginative construction of positiv ...[more]