Make or break: The influence of expected challenges and rewards on the motivation and experience associated with cognitive effort exertion DOI Creative Commons
Y. Charles Zhang, Xiamin Leng, Amitai Shenhav

et al.

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 7, 2023

Abstract Challenging goals can induce harder work but also greater stress, in turn potentially undermining goal achievement. We sought to examine how mental effort and subjective experiences thereof interact as a function of challenge level the size incentives at stake. Participants performed task that rewarded individual units investment (correctly Stroop trials) only if they met threshold number correct trials within fixed time interval (challenge level). varied this (Study 1, N = 40), rewards stake 2, 79), measured variability performance self-reported affect across intervals. Greater higher facilitated induced while (and lower challenge) simultaneously positive affect. Within intervals, we observed an initial speed up then slowdown performance, which could reflect dynamic reconfiguration control. Collectively, these findings further our understanding influence demands on exertion wellbeing.

Language: Английский

Effort paradox redux: Rethinking how effort shapes social behavior DOI
Michael Inzlicht, Aidan Vern Campbell, Blair Saunders

et al.

Advances in experimental social psychology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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The impact of impulsivity and compulsivity on error processing in different motivational contexts DOI Creative Commons
Rebecca Overmeyer, Tanja Endraß

Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 5, 2025

Neural correlates of performance monitoring, specifically the error-related negativity (ERN), are not only sensitive to motivation, but also altered in mental disorders marked by high levels impulsivity and compulsivity. We explored relationship between ERN individual differences A total 221 participants were recruited along dimensions compulsivity, they performed a flanker task with potential gain loss avoidance motivational context assess brain activity. examined theta power. Single trial regression was employed analyze effects relation High compulsivity predicted higher amplitudes within context, context. The interaction both resulted being largest when low, smallest low. amplitude difference trials highest if Results indicate that associated larger probably indicating subjective error significance. Both show reduced modulation suggesting deficits adaptive regulation monitoring. Exploring transdiagnostic markers their interactions could provide valuable insights into unraveling complex dynamics arise examining neural monitoring effects.

Language: Английский

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Neural and Computational Mechanisms of Motivation and Decision-making DOI
Debbie Yee

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 36(12), P. 2822 - 2830

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

Motivation is often thought to enhance adaptive decision-making by biasing actions toward rewards and away from punishment. Emerging evidence, however, points a more nuanced view whereby motivation can both impair different aspects of decision-making. Model-based approaches have gained prominence over the past decade for developing precise mechanistic explanations how incentives impact goal-directed behavior. In this Special Focus, we highlight three studies that demonstrate computational frameworks help decompose decision processes into constituent cognitive components, as well formalize when motivational factors (e.g., monetary rewards) influence specific processes, strategies, self-report measures. Finally, I conclude with provocative suggestion based on recent advances in field: organisms do not merely seek maximize expected value extrinsic incentives. Instead, they may be optimizing achieve desired internal state homeostasis, effort, affect). Future investigation such will fruitful endeavor unlocking cognitive, computational, neural mechanisms motivated

Language: Английский

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Make or break: The influence of expected challenges and rewards on the motivation and experience associated with cognitive effort exertion DOI Creative Commons
Y. Charles Zhang, Xiamin Leng, Amitai Shenhav

et al.

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 7, 2023

Abstract Challenging goals can induce harder work but also greater stress, in turn potentially undermining goal achievement. We sought to examine how mental effort and subjective experiences thereof interact as a function of challenge level the size incentives at stake. Participants performed task that rewarded individual units investment (correctly Stroop trials) only if they met threshold number correct trials within fixed time interval (challenge level). varied this (Study 1, N = 40), rewards stake 2, 79), measured variability performance self-reported affect across intervals. Greater higher facilitated induced while (and lower challenge) simultaneously positive affect. Within intervals, we observed an initial speed up then slowdown performance, which could reflect dynamic reconfiguration control. Collectively, these findings further our understanding influence demands on exertion wellbeing.

Language: Английский

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