Routes of motivation: stable psychological dispositions are associated with dynamic changes in cortico-cortical functional connectivity.

ABSTRACT: The present study provides a neurobiological framework to the theory of epistemic motivation that has been extensively studied for the last three decades in the domain of social cognition. Epistemic motivations affect the way people generate and validate hypotheses, and ultimately form and modify knowledge. Strong dispositional measures such as need for cognitive closure (NCC), the desire for a quick firm answer (any answer) to a question, show gross and stable inter-individual differences. The cognitive mechanisms and neural underpinnings of such differences, however, remain largely unexplored. Here we show that high (compared to low) levels of NCC, measured with need for cognitive closure scale, are associated with reduced online adjustment in cognitive control, as indexed by behavioral

SUBMITTER: Viola V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4043525 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature