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Functional magnetic resonance imaging of reward prediction
Abstract
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Technical and conceptual advances in functional magnetic resonance imaging now allow visualization of real-time changes in oxygenation of deep subcortical regions, leading to rapid advances in scientific characterization of the neural substrates that underlie reward prediction in humans. RECENT FINDINGS: Neuroimaging research over the past year has focused on determining the necessary neural substrates for reward prediction. SUMMARY: While the orbitofrontal cortex has long been implicated in modality-specific reward representation, the ventral striatum (particularly the nucleus accumbens) may play a role in modality-independent representations of predicted reward. On the other hand, the mesial prefrontal cortex appears to play a role in representing reward prediction error and the dorsal caudate in linking reward to behavior. Theoretically, future studies will need to establish the specificity of these responses to reward versus punishment and anticipation versus outcome. Clinically, current findings suggest that patients can predict reward without a prefrontal cortex, but should experience difficulty correcting their behavior when reward predictions are violated.
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“The ventral striatum (VS) is central to reward processing (Knutson and Cooper 2005), and is activated by a range of rewarding stimuli including drugs of abuse (Gilman et al. 2008).”
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“The affective pathway described in dual-systems models is most closely associated with a network of limbic and paralimbic areas involved in emotion- and reward-related processing, most notably the ventral striatum (which subsumes the nucleus accumbens), but also the orbitofrontal cortex, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and superior temporal sulcus”
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“The striatum is a key neural structure involved in reward-related processing, from recognizing and evaluating rewards to learning from them as to predict the best potential reward in the future for review see 1, 10, 11.”
From The social brain and reward: Social information processing in the human striatum (2014) · cites this paper as [10]
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“Thus, reward-related signals in the striatum appear to be crucial for alerting and motivating an organism to a reward opportunity, associating predictive cues with reward outcomes, and learning through trial and error in order to adapt behavior to attain rewards in the future1, 10, 11.”
From The social brain and reward: Social information processing in the human striatum (2014) · cites this paper as [10]
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- Authors
- Knutson, B., & Cooper, J. C.
- Affiliations
- Stanford University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Knutson, Brian
- ORCID
- Knutson, Brian
- Venue
- Current Opinion in Neurology
- Published
- 2005-08
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 411-417
- ISSN
- 1350-7540 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2141927127
- Cited by
- 736
- References
- 51
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- FWCI
- 3.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Current Opinion in Neurology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Gambling Behavior and Treatments
- Keywords
- reward prediction, reward prediction error, orbitofrontal cortex, ventral striatum, nucleus accumbens, dorsal caudate, punishment, reward anticipation, rectifying behavior
- MeSH terms
- Cognition, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Nucleus Accumbens, Reward, Prefrontal Cortex
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