Neural Mechanisms Underlying Motivation of Mental Versus Physical Effort

Liane Schmidt; Maël Lebreton; Marie-Laure Cléry-Melin; Jean Daunizeau; Mathias Pessiglione

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001266

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Neural Mechanisms Underlying Motivation of Mental Versus Physical Effort

Liane Schmidt ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Liane Schmidt, Maël Lebreton, Marie-Laure Cléry-Melin

Affiliations Motivation, Brain and Behavior (MBB) Team, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (ICM), Paris, France, INSERM UMRS 975, CNRS UMR 7225, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC–Paris 6), Paris, France
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Maël Lebreton ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Liane Schmidt, Maël Lebreton, Marie-Laure Cléry-Melin

Affiliations Motivation, Brain and Behavior (MBB) Team, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (ICM), Paris, France, INSERM UMRS 975, CNRS UMR 7225, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC–Paris 6), Paris, France, Centre de NeuroImagerie de Recherche (CENIR), Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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Marie-Laure Cléry-Melin ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Liane Schmidt, Maël Lebreton, Marie-Laure Cléry-Melin

Affiliations Motivation, Brain and Behavior (MBB) Team, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (ICM), Paris, France, INSERM UMRS 975, CNRS UMR 7225, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC–Paris 6), Paris, France
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Jean Daunizeau,

Affiliations Motivation, Brain and Behavior (MBB) Team, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (ICM), Paris, France, INSERM UMRS 975, CNRS UMR 7225, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC–Paris 6), Paris, France, Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland
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Mathias Pessiglione

* E-mail: mathias.pessiglione@gmail.com

Affiliations Motivation, Brain and Behavior (MBB) Team, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (ICM), Paris, France, INSERM UMRS 975, CNRS UMR 7225, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC–Paris 6), Paris, France, Centre de NeuroImagerie de Recherche (CENIR), Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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Neural Mechanisms Underlying Motivation of Mental Versus Physical Effort

Liane Schmidt,
Maël Lebreton,
Marie-Laure Cléry-Melin,
Jean Daunizeau,
Mathias Pessiglione

Published: February 21, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001266

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