For love or money: a common neural currency for social and monetary reward.

Neuron

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

Published: April 2008

Two papers in the current issue of Neuron (Izuma et al. and Zink et al.) report that activity in specific regions of the brain, especially the striatum, reflects a common signal of reward in both the economic (e.g., money) and social (e.g., praise and status) domains.

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