The [[Ventral stratium|ventral striatum]] fulfilled all three criteria and therefore qualified as a common motivational node capable of driving both cognitive and motor regions of the dorsal striatum<ref>[http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001266 Schmidt, L., Lebreton, M., Cléry-Melin, M.-L., Daunizeau, J., & Pessiglione, M. (2012). Neural mechanisms underlying motivation of mental versus physical effort. PLoS Biology, 10(2), e1001266.]</ref>.

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