Routes of motivation: stable psychological dispositions are associated with dynamic changes in cortico-cortical functional connectivity.

The present study provides a neurobiological framework to the theory of epistemic motivation that has been extensively studied for the last three decades in the domain of social cognition. Epistemic motivations affect the way people generate and validate hypotheses, and ultimately form and modify kn...

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Main Authors: Vanda Viola, Annalisa Tosoni, Arie W Kruglanski, Gaspare Galati, Lucia Mannetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4043525?pdf=render