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SUBMITTER: Pleger B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2682779 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pleger Burkhard B Blankenburg Felix F Ruff Christian C CC Driver Jon J Dolan Raymond J RJ
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20080801 33
Reinforcing effects of reward on action are well established, but possible effects on sensory function are less well explored. Here, using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we assessed whether reward can influence somatosensory judgments and modulate activity in human somatosensory cortex. Participants discriminated electrical somatosensory stimuli on an index finger with correct performance rewarded financially at trial end, at one of four different anticipated levels. Higher rewards impro ...[more]