Task performance errors and rewards affect voluntary task choices.

ABSTRACT: Humans are remarkably flexible in adapting their behavior to current demands. It has been suggested that the decision which of multiple tasks to perform is based on a variety of factors pertaining to the rewards associated with each task as well as task performance (e.g., error rates associated with each task and/or error commission on the previous trial). However, further empirical investigation is needed to examine whether task performance still influences task choices if task choices are rewarded but task performance is not. Accordingly, we exposed participants to a novel reward-varying voluntary task switching paradigm where the reward for the performed task gradually decreased while the reward associated for the alternative task was unchanged. Importantly, we rewarded participants' ta

SUBMITTER: Spitzer MWH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10965722 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature