Modulating Proactive Cognitive Control by Reward: Differential Anticipatory Effects of Performance Contingent and Non-Contingent Rewards

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Preprint , Other literature type 31 May 2018 United Kingdom, United Kingdom Publisher:Center for Open ScienceJournal:Psychological Research, volume 83, pages 258-274 (issn: 0340-0727, eissn: 1430-2772,

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Authors: Motonori Yamaguchi; Akio Nishimura;

doi: 10.31234/osf.io/z9kgj , 10.31234/osf.io/3x2nc , 10.1007/s00426-018-1027-2 , 10.17605/osf.io/z9kgj

pmid: 29855699

pmc: PMC6433802

Modulating Proactive Cognitive Control by Reward: Differential Anticipatory Effects of Performance Contingent and Non-Contingent Rewards

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The present study investigated the influences of two different forms of reward presentation in modulating cognitive control. In three experiments, participants performed a flanker task for which one-third of trials were precued for a chance of obtaining a reward (reward trials). In Experiment 1, a reward was provided if participants made the correct response on reward trials but a penalty was given if they made an incorrect response on these trials. The anticipation of this performance-contingent reward increased response speed and reduced the flanker effect but had little influence on the sequential modulation of the flanker effect after incompatible trials. In Experiment 2, participants obtained a reward randomly on two-thirds of the precued reward trials and were given a penalty on the remaining one-third, regardless of their performance. The anticipation of this non-contingent reward had little influence on the overall response speed or flanker effect but reduced the sequential modulation of the flanker effect after incompatible trials. Experiment 3 also used performance non-contingent rewards but participants were randomly penalized more often than they were rewarded; non-contingent penalty had little influence on the sequential modulation of the flanker effect. None of the three experiments showed a reliable influence of the actual acquisition of rewards on task performance. These results indicate anticipatory effects of performance contingent and non-contingent rewards on cognitive control with little evidence of aftereffects.

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