Ventral striatal activity links adversity and reward processing in children

Adversity impacts many aspects of psychological and physical development including reward-based learning and decision-making. Mechanisms relating adversity and reward processing in children, however, remain unclear. Here, we show that adversity is associated with potentiated learning from positive o...

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Main Authors: Niki H. Kamkar, Daniel J. Lewis, Wouter van den Bos, J. Bruce Morton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-08-01
Series:Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929316302249