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. 2016 Jan 15;1369(1):40–54. doi: 10.1111/nyas.12992

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Effects of reward on ignoring versus updating information in working memory. The receipt of an unexpected financial gain relative to a loss during the delay period led to increased BOLD signal in the ventral striatum (left image). The extent to which ignoring and updating items in WM were differentially affected by reward receipt was related to the magnitude of BOLD signal changes in the ventral striatum, left DLPFC, and left frontopolar cortex (bottom image). In addition, there was increased connectivity between the ventral striatum and the left DLPFC and frontopolar cortex when participants had to ignore information compared to when they had to update WM. Regions coupled to the ventral striatum during ignore events that showed a brain–behavior relationship overlapped with a distractor–resistance network (right images). Results from Ref. 95.