Humans Integrate Monetary and Liquid Incentives to Motivate Cognitive Task Performance

Frontiers in Psychology
Debbie M YeeTodd S Braver

Abstract

It is unequivocal that a wide variety of incentives can motivate behavior. However, few studies have explicitly examined whether and how different incentives are integrated in terms of their motivational influence. The current study examines the combined effects of monetary and liquid incentives on cognitive processing, and whether appetitive and aversive incentives have distinct influences. We introduce a novel task paradigm, in which participants perform cued task-switching for monetary rewards that vary parametrically across trials, with liquid incentives serving as post-trial performance feedback. Critically, the symbolic meaning of the liquid was held constant (indicating successful reward attainment), while liquid valence was blocked. In the first experiment, monetary rewards combined additively with appetitive liquid feedback to improve subject task performance. Aversive liquid feedback counteracted monetary reward effects in low monetary reward trials, particularly in a subset of participants who tended to avoid responding under these conditions. Self-report motivation ratings predicted behavioral performance above and beyond experimental effects. A follow-up experiment replicated the predictive power of motivation rati...Continue Reading

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Jun 13, 2020·PloS One·Ahmet O CeceliElizabeth Tricomi
Apr 14, 2019·Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience·Debbie M YeeTodd S Braver
Sep 26, 2019·Frontiers in Psychology·Ahmet O CeceliElizabeth Tricomi
Oct 6, 2020·Frontiers in Psychology·Jennifer L CrawfordTodd S Braver
Apr 26, 2021·Trends in Cognitive Sciences·Michael C FreundTodd S Braver

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