Combined effects of attention and motivation on visual task performance: transient and sustained motivational effects

We investigated how the brain integrates motivational and attentional signals by using a neuroimaging paradigm that provided separate estimates for transient cue- and target-related signals, in addition to sustained block-related responses. Participants performed a Posner-type task in which an endog...

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Main Authors: Jan B Engelmann, Eswar Damaraju, Srikanth Padmala, Luiz Pessoa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2009-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/neuro.09.004.2009/full