Identifying the neural substrates of intrinsic motivation during task performance.

Intrinsic motivation is the inherent tendency to seek out novelty and challenge, to explore and investigate, and to stretch and extend one's capacities. When people imagine performing intrinsically motivating tasks, they show heightened anterior insular cortex (AIC) activity. To fully explain the ne...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Publicado en:Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience Vol. 17; no. 5; pp. 939 - 954
Autores principales: Lee, Woogul, Reeve, Johnmarshall
Formato: Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Oct2017
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
fields @attributes:
  recordID: 1
pdfLink:
plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=125256630&site=ehost-live
header:
  @attributes:
    shortDbName: ccm
    uiTerm: 125256630
    longDbName: CINAHL Complete
    uiTag: AN
  controlInfo:
    bkinfo:
    dissinfo:
    jinfo:
      jid:
        15307026
        NA4
      jtl: Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience
      issn: 15307026
      maglogo: N
    pubinfo:
      dt: Oct2017
      vid: 17
      iid: 5
      pid: 237
      pub: Springer Nature
      place: New York, New York
    artinfo:
      ui:
        125256630
        10.3758/s13415-017-0524-x
        125256630
      ppf: 939
      ppct: 15
      formats:
        fmt:
          @attributes:
            type: P
      tig:
        atl: Identifying the neural substrates of intrinsic motivation during task performance.
      aug:
        au:
          Lee, Woogul
          Reeve, Johnmarshall
        affil: Department of Education , Korea National University of Education , Cheongju-si 28173 South Korea
      sug:
      ab: Intrinsic motivation is the inherent tendency to seek out novelty and challenge, to explore and investigate, and to stretch and extend one's capacities. When people imagine performing intrinsically motivating tasks, they show heightened anterior insular cortex (AIC) activity. To fully explain the neural system of intrinsic motivation, however, requires assessing neural activity while people actually perform intrinsically motivating tasks (i.e., while answering curiosity-inducing questions or solving competence-enabling anagrams). Using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging, we found that the neural system of intrinsic motivation involves not only AIC activity, but also striatum activity and, further, AIC-striatum functional interactions. These findings suggest that subjective feelings of intrinsic satisfaction (associated with AIC activations), reward processing (associated with striatum activations), and their interactions underlie the actual experience of intrinsic motivation. These neural findings are consistent with the conceptualization of intrinsic motivation as the pursuit and satisfaction of subjective feelings (interest and enjoyment) as intrinsic rewards.
      pubtype: Academic Journal
      doctype: Journal Article
      ougenre: Article
    language: English
    refInfo:
    holdings:
      @attributes:
        islocal: N