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Rewarding the Brain. The ventral midbrain is active when humans receive an unpredictable juice reward. Monetary rewards, although defined by cultural agreement, also engage the same subcortical reward processing structures.
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Powell K: Economy of the Mind. PLoS Biol 1/3/2003: e77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0000077
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Published: December 22, 2003
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(fMRI image courtesy of P. Read Montague.)
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