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The investigation of neural correlates of monetary reward by using functional neuroimaging techniques

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2006

Harold Mouras*
Affiliation:
Inserm, U742, Paris, F-75005FranceUniversité Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR S 742, Paris, F-75005FranceSocio-Affective Development Group, Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, CH-1205Geneva, Switzerland

Abstract

Money is a specifically human incentive. However, functional imaging techniques bring striking evidence that neural circuits pertaining to more “natural” addictive and rewarding processes are involved in response to monetary reward. Main results are evoked here, with specific brain responses demonstrated along the different stages of the process.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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