ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2019
Reward-Driven Arousal Impacts Preparation to Perform a Task via Amygdala-Caudate Mechanisms.
Article in Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Differential motor neuron activity in rats during successful and failed grasping.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025Article
- Reward conditioning may not have an effect on category-specific memory.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The effect of prediction error on episodic memory encoding is modulated by the outcome of the predictions.NPJ science of learning · 2023Review
- Comparing adaptive coding of reward in bipolar I disorder and schizophrenia.Human brain mapping · 2023Article
- Physiological arousal explains infant gaze following in various social contexts.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- The influence of rewards on incidental memory: more does not mean better.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2020Article
- Ventromedial prefrontal cortex contributes to performance success by controlling reward-driven arousal representation in amygdala.NeuroImage · 2019Article
- Reappraisal of incentives ameliorates choking under pressure and is correlated with changes in the neural representations of incentives.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Preparing for a challenging task can increase physiological arousal, in particular when potential incentives are large (e.g., a solo musical performance in front of an audience). Here, we examine how potential reward and its influence on arousal, measured by pupil dynamics, are represented in the brain while preparing for a challenging task. We further ask how neural representations during preparation relate to actual performance. Trials resulting in performance failure were characterized by increased pupil dilation as a function of increasing reward magnitude during preparation. Such failure trials were also associated with activation of the right amygdala representing pupil dilation, and the left caudate representing reward magnitude. Notably, increases in functional connectivity between amygdala and caudate preceded performance failure. These findings highlight increased connectivity between neural regions representing reward and arousal in circumstances where reward-driven arousal impairs performance.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.