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    • openAccess   Dopamine, behavioral economics, and effort 

      Salamone, John; Correa, Merce; Farrar, Andrew M.; Nunes, Eric J.; Pardo Andrés, Marta Frontiers Research Foundation (2009)
      There are numerous problems with the hypothesis that brain dopamine (DA) systems, particularly in the nucleus accumbens, directly mediate the rewarding or primary motivational characteristics of natural stimuli such as ...
    • openAccess   Perspectiva histórica de la psicología de la motivación 

      Gómez-Íñiguez, Consolación; Carpi Ballester, Amparo; Guerrero Rodríguez, Cristina; Palmero, Francisco Universidad del Rosario (Colombia) (2008)
      La psicología de la motivación posee una larga tradición e historia en el seno de la Psicología. De hecho, estimamos que, en cierta medida, entender la historia de la psicología de la motivación es entender gran parte ...
    • openAccess   Role of dopamine–adenosine interactions in the brain circuitry regulating effort-related decision making: insights into pathological aspects of motivation 

      Salamone, John; Correa, Merce; Farrar, Andrew M.; Nunes, Eric J.; Collins, Lyndsey E. Future Medicine (2010)
      Brain dopamine, particularly in the nucleus accumbens, has been implicated in activational aspects of motivation and effort-related processes. Accumbens dopamine depletions reduce the tendency of rats to work for food, and ...