Neurodevelopment of the incentive network facilitates motivated behaviour from adolescence to adulthood

Abstract

The ability to enhance motivated performance through incentives is crucial to guide and ultimately optimize the outcome of goal-directed behaviour. It remains largely unclear how motivated behaviour and performance develops particularly across adolescence. Here, we used computational fMRI to assess how response speed and its underlying neural circuitry are modulated by reward and loss in a monetary incentive delay paradigm. We demonstrate that maturational fine-tuning of functional coupling within the cortico-striatal incentive circui Show more