Anticipation of Increasing Monetary Reward Selectively Recruits Nucleus Accumbens

By Brian Knutson, Charles M. Adams, Grace Fong, Daniel W. Hommer. Journal of Neuroscience, 2001

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Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience

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In Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

1. Kent C. Berridge
2. Peter S. Dayan
3. Yael Niv
4. Nathaniel D. Daw
5. Brian Knutson
6. John P. O'Doherty
7. B. Casey
8. R. J. Dolan

In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Brian Knutson
2. Kent C. Berridge
3. Nathaniel D. Daw
4. Peter S. Dayan
5. John P. O'Doherty
6. Yael Niv
7. R. J. Dolan
8. B. Casey

Citations in the corpus

• Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles (2008, neutral): “Knutson et al. (2001) explore the relationship between positive emotions and activity in subcortical circuits including the nucleus accumbens.”
• Generalization of value in reinforcement learning by humans (2012, background): “Reward prediction error correlates have been found most prominently in the ventral striatum (Knutson et al., 2001; Pagnoni et al., 2002; McClure et al., 2003; O’Doherty et al., 2003; Delgado et al., 2005; Daw et al., 2006; Lohrenz et al., 2007; Schönberg et al., 2007; Hare et al., 2008), a region…”
• Gender Differences in Emotion Regulation: An fMRI Study of Cognitive Reappraisal (2008, background): “The ventral striatum has been implicated in reward-related processing in humans ( Knutson, Adams , Fong, & Hommer, 2001; McClure, York, & Montague, 2004) and animals (Elliott, Friston, & Dolan, 2000).”
• Neuronal Reward and Decision Signals: From Theories to Data. (2015, background): “Hundreds of human neuroimaging studies demonstrate activations induced by reward related stimuli and rewardrelated actions in the main reward structures (280, 590).”
• Anticipatory affect: neural correlates and consequences for choice (2008, positive): “Initial event-related fMRI studies using the MID task suggested that anticipation of monetary gain proportionally increased NAcc activation ( Knutson et al. 2001a ).”
• Working over Time: Dynamic Inconsistency in Real Effort Tasks (2015, positive): “…psychology provides some grounds for such views as money generates broadly similar rewards-related neural patterns as more primary incentives (Knutson et al. 2001), and in the domain of discounting evidence suggests that discounting over primary rewards, such as juice, produces similar…”
• The neural correlates of maternal and romantic love (2004, background): “…putamen, globus pallidus) contains cells that respond to food and drink reward and it is activated by monetary reward stimuli (Elliott et al., 2003; Knutson et al., 2001; Schultz, 2000), by cocaine (Breiter and Rosen, 1999; Breiter et al., 1997), and sexual arousal in human and monkey (Arnow et…”
• Earlier Development of the Accumbens Relative to Orbitofrontal Cortex Might Underlie Risk-Taking Behavior in Adolescents (2006, background): “Our findings support our hypothesis that adolescents differ from children and adults in NAcc and OFC recruitment, regions previously implicated in reward processing (Knutson et al., 2001) and addiction (Volkow et al., 2004).”
• Adolescent risky decision-making: Neurocognitive development of reward and control regions (2010, background): “, 2002), but also in the processing of abstract rewards such as monetary gain (Breiter et al., 2001; Knutson et al., 2001).”
• A region of mesial prefrontal cortex tracks monetarily rewarding outcomes: characterization with rapid event-related fMRI (2003, background): “…that ventral striatal circuitry may play a role in generating positive feelings associated with reward anticipation (Burgdorf et al., 2001; Knutson et al., 2001a), it is interesting to speculate whether MPFC activations may be related to positive feelings associated with rewarding…”
• Affective neuroscience of pleasure: reward in humans and animals (2008, methodology): “Many fascinating studies have revealed predictive reward signals to be often coded by dopamine systems (Bayer and Glimcher 2005; Di Chiara and Bassareo 2007; Fields et al. 2007; Knutson et al. 2001; Knutson et al. 2007; McClure et al. 2003; Nicola et al. 2005; O’Doherty et al. 2006; Pessiglione et a”