Figure 3.

fMRI results. A, A common region of ventral striatum was implicated during execution of the motor task in the loss and gain conditions (significant at p < 0.05, small-volume corrected in an a priori ventral striatum ROI). B, Activity in the ventral striatum was negatively correlated with the magnitude of incentive at the time of the motor task. This pattern of activation held for both the loss and gain conditions. C, At the time of incentive presentation, plots of the correlations between the difference in neural sensitivity between the loss and gain conditions and the difference in performance between the $100 loss and gain conditions (left) and behavioral loss aversion (right). D, At the time of the motor task, plots of the correlations between the difference in neural sensitivity between the loss and gain conditions and the difference in performance between the $100 loss and gain conditions (left) and behavioral loss aversion (right).