The neural substrate of reward anticipation in health: a meta-analysis of fMRI findings in the M=monetary incentive delay task
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Journal Article
Abstract
The monetary incentive delay task breaks down reward processing into discrete stages for fMRI analysis. Here we look at anticipation of monetary gain and loss contrasted with neutral anticipation. We meta-analysed data from 15 original whole-brain group maps (n = 346) and report extensive areas of relative activation and deactivation throughout the whole brain. For both anticipation of gain and loss we report robust activation of the striatum, activation of key nodes of the putative salience network, including anterior cingulate and anterior insula, and more complex patterns of activation and deactivation in the central executive and default networks. On between-group comparison, we found significantly greater relative deactivation in the left inferior frontal gyrus associated with incentive valence. This meta-analysis provides a robust whole-brain map of a reward anticipation network in the healthy human brain.
Date Issued
2018-12-01
Date Acceptance
2018-08-27
Citation
Neuropsychology Review, 2018, 28 (4), pp.496-506
ISSN
1040-7308
Publisher
Springer Verlag
Start Page
496
End Page
506
Journal / Book Title
Neuropsychology Review
Volume
28
Issue
4
Copyright Statement
© The Author(s) 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
Subjects
Anticipation or reward
Healthy adults
Meta-analysis
Monetary incentive delay task
fMRI
MTAC
Experimental Psychology
1109 Neurosciences
1701 Psychology
1702 Cognitive Sciences
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2018-09-25