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Reward Processing

Reward Processing is a neurobiological process within affective, cognitive, and social neuroscience that encompasses the detection, valuation, and integration of rewarding stimuli to guide behavior, distinguished by its specific engagement of neural circuits involved in motivation, learning, and affective valuation, particularly the mesolimbic dopamine system.

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Behavioral inhibition, behavioral activation, and affective responses to impending reward and punishment: The BIS/BAS Scales.

Charles S. Carver, Teri L. White · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1994 · 7.1K citations

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The neural basis of human error processing: Reinforcement learning, dopamine, and the error-related negativity.

Clay B. Holroyd, Michael Coles · Psychological Review · 2002 · 4K citations

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Positive reinforcement produced by electrical stimulation of septal area and other regions of rat brain.

Peter Milner · Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology · 1954 · 3.1K citations

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Separate Neural Systems Value Immediate and Delayed Monetary Rewards

Samuel M. McClure, David Laibson, George Loewenstein et al. · Science · 2004 · 3.1K citations

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Intensely pleasurable responses to music correlate with activity in brain regions implicated in reward and emotion

Anne J. Blood, Robert J. Zatorre · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2001 · 2.8K citations · Full text

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    Trevor W. Robbins

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    120 publications · 22.6K citations

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    Raymond J. Dolan

    University College London, United Kingdom

    122 publications · 27.8K citations

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    Wolfram Schultz

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    81 publications · 20.1K citations

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    John P. O’Doherty

    California Institute of Technology, United States

    62 publications · 23.3K citations

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  5. AH
    Andreas Heinz

    Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

    75 publications · 8.7K citations

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  1. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    114 h-index

    1.1K publications

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  2. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    112 h-index

    999 publications

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  3. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    99 h-index

    572 publications

    122.8K citations

  4. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    98 h-index

    805 publications

    111.9K citations

  5. National Institutes of Health

    Bethesda, United States

    97 h-index

    724 publications

    113.1K citations

  6. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    95 h-index

    791 publications

    99K citations

  7. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    87 h-index

    518 publications

    78.1K citations

  8. Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging

    London, United Kingdom

    87 h-index

    496 publications

    99.3K citations

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  1. Journal of Neuroscience

    825 publications · 131.4K citations

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  2. Neuron

    144 publications · 43.1K citations

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  3. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 174 publications · 33.3K citations

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  4. Nature Neuroscience

    103 publications · 33.3K citations

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  5. NeuroImage

    221 publications · 24.7K citations

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