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. 2018 Jan 26;8(2):20. doi: 10.3390/brainsci8020020

Table 1.

Neuroscientific evidence of growth mindset and intrinsic motivation.

Growth Mindset (Behavior) Intrinsic Motivation (Behavior)
Enhanced Pe amplitude (awareness and attention) [30,34] Enhanced SPN (engagement and enjoyment) [39]
DLPFC (error-monitoring and behavioral adaptation) [32] Medial and lateral frontal cortex (cognitive control) [33]
Dorsal ACC (error-monitoring and behavioral adaptation) [32] ACC (error-monitoring and behavioral adaptation) [37]
- AIC (awareness, engagement) [38,42]
Dorsal and ventral striatum (intrinsic value of an action) [32] Ventral striatum (intrinsic value of an action, reward processing) [40,41,42]