Neural correlates of preferred activities: development of an interest-specific go/nogo task.

ABSTRACT: The activities we choose to spend our leisure time with are intrinsically motivating and vary across individuals. Yet it is unknown how impulse control or neural activity changes when processing a preferred stimulus related to a hobby or interest. Developing a task that assesses the response to preferred interests is of importance as it would be relevant to a range of psychiatric disorders that have hyper- or hypo-arousal to such cues. During functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), 39 healthy adults completed a novel task to test approach behavior and cognitive control to cues that were personalized to the participants' interests compared to stimuli the participants identified as being of non-interest and colored shapes. fMRI results showed that cues of one's interest elicited activa

SUBMITTER: Bos DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5716102 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature