Journal article
Neural differences between intrinsic reasons for doing versus extrinsic reasons for doing: An fMRI study
Neuroscience research, Vol.73(1), pp.68-72
05/2012
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2012.02.010
PMCID: PMC3614004
PMID: 23565014
Abstract
► Pioneering neuroscience study of intrinsic motivation. ► We compared the neural differences between intrinsic and incentive motivation. ► Intrinsic reasons recruited insular cortex activity. ► Extrinsic reasons recruited posterior cingulate cortex activity. ► These findings confirm that human motivation is not singular.
The contemporary neural understanding of motivation is based almost exclusively on the neural mechanisms of incentive motivation. Recognizing this as a limitation, we used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to pursue the viability of expanding the neural understanding of motivation by initiating a pioneering study of intrinsic motivation by scanning participants’ neural activity when they decided to act for intrinsic reasons versus when they decided to act for extrinsic reasons. As expected, intrinsic reasons for acting more recruited insular cortex activity while extrinsic reasons for acting more recruited posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) activity. The results demonstrate that engagement decisions based on intrinsic motivation are more determined by weighing the presence of spontaneous self-satisfactions such as interest and enjoyment while engagement decisions based on extrinsic motivation are more determined by weighing socially-acquired stored values as to whether the environmental incentive is attractive enough to warrant action.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Neural differences between intrinsic reasons for doing versus extrinsic reasons for doing: An fMRI study
- Creators
- Woogul Lee - Department of Psychological and Quantitative Foundations, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, United StatesJohnmarshall Reeve - Department of Education, Korea University, Seoul 136-701, Republic of KoreaYiqun Xue - Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United StatesJinhu Xiong - Department of Radiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, United States
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Neuroscience research, Vol.73(1), pp.68-72
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.neures.2012.02.010
- PMID
- 23565014
- PMCID
- PMC3614004
- NLM abbreviation
- Neurosci Res
- ISSN
- 0168-0102
- eISSN
- 1872-8111
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ireland Ltd
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100000002, name: National Institutes of Health, award: 1 R21 MH 082187-01A1; DOI: 10.13039/501100004084, name: Korea Science and Engineering Foundation, award: R32-2008-000-20023-0; DOI: 10.13039/501100004085, name: Ministry of Education, Science and Technology
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/2012
- Academic Unit
- Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering; Pediatric Dentistry
- Record Identifier
- 9984083882302771
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