How Performance-Contingent Reward Prospect Modulates Cognitive Control: Increased Cue Maintenance at the Cost of Decreased Flexibility

Autor/inn/en	Hefer, Carmen; Dreisbach, Gesine
Titel	How Performance-Contingent Reward Prospect Modulates Cognitive Control: Increased Cue Maintenance at the Cost of Decreased Flexibility
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43 (2017) 10, S.1643-1658 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/xlm0000397
Schlagwörter	Rewards; Cognitive Processes; Cues; Maintenance; Adjustment (to Environment); Undergraduate Students; Foreign Countries; Reaction Time; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Reward; Belohnung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Stichwort; Ausland; Reaktionsvermögen; Deutschland
Abstract	Growing evidence suggests that reward prospect promotes cognitive stability in terms of increased context or cue maintenance. In 3 Experiments, using different versions of the AX-continuous performance task, we investigated whether this reward effect comes at the cost of decreased cognitive flexibility. Experiment 1 shows that the reward induced increase of cue maintenance perseverates even when reward is no longer available. Experiment 2 shows that this reward effect not only survives the withdrawal of reward but also delays the adaptation to changed task conditions that make cue usage maladaptive. And finally in Experiment 3, it is shown that this reduced flexibility to adapt is observed in a more demanding modified version of the AX-continuous performance task and is even stronger under conditions of sustained reward. Taken together, all 3 Experiments thus speak to the idea that the prospect of reward increases cue maintenance and thereby cognitive stability. This increased cognitive stability however comes at the cost of decreased flexibility in terms of delayed adaptation to new reward and task conditions. (As Provided).
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