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SUBMITTER: Hausler AN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4398371 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Häusler Alexander Niklas AN Becker Benjamin B Bartling Marcel M Weber Bernd B
PloS one 20150415 4
Social rewards are important incentives for human behavior. This is especially true in team sports such as the most popular one worldwide: soccer. We investigated reward processing upon scoring a soccer goal in a standard two-versus-one situation and in comparison to winning in a monetary incentive task. The results show a strong overlap in brain activity between the two conditions in established reward regions of the mesolimbic dopaminergic system, including the ventral striatum and ventromedia ...[more]