Dissociable influences of reward motivation and positive emotion on cognitive control.

ABSTRACT: It is becoming increasingly appreciated that affective and/or motivational influences contribute strongly to goal-oriented cognition and behavior. An unresolved question is whether emotional manipulations (i.e., direct induction of affectively valenced subjective experience) and motivational manipulations (e.g., delivery of performance-contingent rewards and punishments) have similar or distinct effects on cognitive control. Prior work has suggested that reward motivation can reliably enhance a proactive mode of cognitive control, whereas other evidence is suggestive that positive emotion improves cognitive flexibility, but reduces proactive control. However, a limitation of the prior research is that reward motivation and positive emotion have largely been studied independently. Here, we

SUBMITTER: Chiew KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4072919 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature