Remedial effects of motivational incentive on declining cognitive control in healthy aging and Parkinson's disease

The prospect of reward may provide a motivational incentive for optimizing goal-directed behavior. Animal work demonstrates that reward-processing networks and oculomotor-control networks in the brain are connected through the dorsal striatum, and that reward anticipation can improve oculomotor con...

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Main Authors: Helga A Harsay, Jessika I V Buitenweg, Jasper G Wijnen, Maria J S Guerreiro, K. Richard Ridderinkhof
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2010-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnagi.2010.00144/full