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Remembering pleasure and personal meaning from episodes of intrinsic motivation: an fMRI study.
- Source :
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Motivation & Emotion . Dec2020, Vol. 44 Issue 6, p810-818. 9p. - Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- To decide whether or not to participate in an upcoming activity, people can use their memories of intrinsically-motivating or non-intrinsically-motivating experiences during previous participations. To understand the underlying neural mechanism of intrinsic motivation memories, we used a block-design functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiment to compare the neural activations during intrinsically-motivating memories versus during non-intrinsically-motivating memories. Results showed that both the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) were more activated during the recall of intrinsically-motivating memories rather than during the recall of non-intrinsically-motivating memories. Greater negative functional interactions between the VMPFC and ACC were also observed in the intrinsically-motivating situations. These findings suggest that the two complementary neural processes are employed to reconstruct intrinsically-motivating experiences: pleasure (reward related to VMPFC activity) and personal meaning (self-endorsement related to ACC activity). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01467239
- Volume :
- 44
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Motivation & Emotion
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 146734189
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-020-09855-1