Dissociable involvement of the nucleus accumbens subregions in effort-based decision making

Animals routinely engage in cost-benefit analysis, choosing between different courses of actions with potentially greater response costs that may lead to greater rewards. Previous research has shown that the preference to exert more physical effort to obtain a larger magnitude of reward is mediated...

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Main Author: Ghods-Sharifi, Sarvin
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/24159