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SUBMITTER: Hernandez Lallement J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3980794 | biostudies-other | 2014 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 20121130 3
It is ecologically adaptive that the amount of effort invested to achieve a reward increases the relevance of the resulting outcome. Here, we investigated the effect of effort on activity in reward and loss processing brain areas by using functional magnetic resonance imaging. In total, 28 subjects were endowed with monetary rewards of randomly varying magnitude after performing arithmetic calculations that were either difficult (high effort), easy (low effort) or already solved (no effort). Sub ...[more]