A neural computational model of incentive salience.
Incentive salience is a motivational property with 'magnet-like' qualities. When attributed to reward-predicting stimuli (cues), incentive salience triggers a pulse of 'wanting' and an individual is pulled toward the cues and reward. A key computational question is how incentive...
Main Authors: | Jun Zhang, Kent C Berridge, Amy J Tindell, Kyle S Smith, J Wayne Aldridge |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2009-07-01
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Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2703828?pdf=render |
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