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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 32, Issue 24, Pages 8383-8390Publisher
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6237-11.2012
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- Science Foundation Ireland [08/IN.1/B1844]
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci [0959140] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) [08/IN.1/B1844] Funding Source: Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
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It is widely held that the interaction between instrumental and Pavlovian conditioning induces powerful motivational biases. Pavlovian-Instrumental Transfer (PIT) is one of the key paradigms demonstrating this effect, which can further be decomposed into a general and specific component. Although these two forms of PIT have been studied at the level of amygdalar subregions in rodents, it is still unknown whether they involve different areas of the human amygdala. Using a high-resolution fMRI (hr-fMRI) protocol optimized for the amygdala in combination with a novel free operant task designed to elicit effects of both general and specific PIT, we demonstrate that a region of ventral amygdala within the boundaries of the basolateral complex and the ventrolateral putamen are involved in specific PIT, while a region of dorsal amygdala within the boundaries of the centromedial complex is involved in general PIT. These results add to a burgeoning literature indicating different functional contributions for these different amygdalar subregions in reward-processing and motivation.
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