Erratum

Abstract

Bijleveld, E., Custers, R., & Aarts, H. (2012). Human reward pursuit: From rudimentary to higher-level functions. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 21, 194–199.

Table 1 of the above article had a table heading that read “Required intensity of effort.” It should have read “Required intensity of reward.” The corrected Table 1 is printed below.

Table 1.

Framework for Understanding Human Reward Processing and Its Effects on Task Performance

Type of reward processing	Required intensity of reward	Phenomenological experience of reward	Functionality and potentially involved brain structures	Behavioral outcomes
Initial	Low	Reward is not consciously experienced	Rudimentary: VS and its immediate outputs	Facilitation of performance
Full	High	Reward is consciously experienced	Rudimentary: VS and its immediate outputs; higher-level: MPFC, ACC, DLPFC	Facilitation of performance; strategic decision making and reflections on rewards

Note: VS = ventral striatum; MPFC = medial prefrontal cortex; ACC = anterior cingulate cortex; DLPFC = dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.