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SUBMITTER: Jimura K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2889311 | biostudies-literature | 2010 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jimura Koji K Locke Hannah S HS Braver Todd S TS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20100426 19
Increasing the reward value of behavioral goals can facilitate cognitive processes required for goal achievement. This facilitation may be accomplished by the dynamic and flexible engagement of cognitive control mechanisms operating in distributed brain regions. It is still not clear, however, what are the characteristics of individuals, situations, and neural activation dynamics that optimize motivation-linked cognitive enhancement. Here we show that highly reward-sensitive individuals exhibite ...[more]