An open-source python-based fMRI paradigm: The monetary incentive delay task

This script implements the Monetary incentive delay task (Knutson et al., 2000) for fMRI in python.

Find the code on Github

  • Knutson, B., Westdorp, A., Kaiser, E., & Hommer, D. (2000). FMRI visualization of brain activity during a monetary incentive delay task. Neuroimage, 12(1), 20-27.
  • Willinger, D., Karipidis, I. I., Dimanova, P., Walitza, S., & Brem, S. (2021). Neurodevelopment of the incentive network facilitates motivated behaviour from adolescence to adulthood. NeuroImage, 237, 118186.
  • Willinger, D., Karipidis, I. I., Neuer, S., Emery, S., Rauch, C., Häberling, I., … & Brem, S. (2022). Maladaptive avoidance learning in the orbitofrontal cortex in adolescents with major depression. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 7(3), 293-301.

David Willinger, PhD

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“All models are wrong, but some are useful."

2018-01-01