In youth performing an n-back task without feedback, bilateral ventral striatum activates more strongly to correct than incorrect responses¶
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q3 i? Bilateral ventral striatum shows greater activation to correct than incorrect trials during an n-back task with no feedback or explicit rewards. → Satterthwaite Theodore D. M.D. 2012
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Satterthwaite Theodore D. M.D. 2012¶
Satterthwaite Theodore D. M.D., M.A.; Ruparel Kosha M.S.; Loughead James Ph.D; Elliott Mark A. Ph.D.; Gerraty Raphael T. B.A.; Calkins Monica E. Ph.D.; Hakonarson Hakon M.D. Ph.D.; Gur Ruben C. Ph.D.; Gur Raquel E. M.D., Ph.D.; Wolf Daniel H. M.D., Ph.D. (2012). Being Right Is Its Own Reward: Load and Performance Related Ventral Striatum Activation to Correct Responses During a Working Memory Task in Youth. Neuroimage. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3358426/
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Across-level voxelwise GLM in 304 youths aged 8-22 performing a fractal n-back task with no feedback, testing COR>INCOR. The FWE-corrected analysis found "a large, confluent cluster of activation, with peak activation in the ventral striatum" (peak z=8.92).
"The first model examining the contrast of COR>INCOR was initially evaluated using an a priori FWE-corrected threshold; this resulted in a large, confluent cluster of activation, with peak activation in the ventral striatum (peak z=8.92, MNI coordinates: −22, 10, −8; Figure 2A)."
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Related Claims¶
- Adolescents show disproportionately greater false alarms on happy no-go trials with heightened ventral striatum activity — related
- Ventral striatum activation to correct responses is correlated with discrimination performance in youth — related
- Ventral striatum activation to correct responses peaks in mid-adolescence at approximately age 16 — related
- Ventral striatum response to correct responses scales with working memory load in youth — related
- The VS correct-greater-than-incorrect response is present for both target and foil trials and is not a motor confound — related
- Post-error slowing occurs in the 2-back condition despite absence of feedback — related
- Working memory load degrades discrimination accuracy and slows responses in youth — related
- Post-error behavioural adjustments can occur automatically, dissociated from explicit error detection — related
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In youth performing an n-back task without feedback, bilateral ventral striatum activates more strongly to correct than incorrect responses |
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In youth performing an n-back task without feedback, bilateral ventral striatum activates more strongly to correct than incorrect responses |
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2012 |
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