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Fröber, Kerstin ; Dreisbach, Gesine

How Sequentially Changing Reward Prospect Modulates Meta-control: Increasing Reward Prospect Promotes Cognitive Flexibility

Fröber, Kerstin und Dreisbach, Gesine (2020) How Sequentially Changing Reward Prospect Modulates Meta-control: Increasing Reward Prospect Promotes Cognitive Flexibility. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience.

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DOI zum Zitieren dieses Dokuments: 10.5283/epub.44817


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Meta-control is necessary to regulate the balance between cognitive stability and flexibility. Evidence from (voluntary) task switching studies suggests performance-contingent reward as one modulating factor. Depending on the immediate reward history, reward prospect seems to promote either cognitive stability or flexibility: Increasing reward prospect reduced switch costs and increased the ...

Meta-control is necessary to regulate the balance between cognitive stability and flexibility. Evidence from (voluntary) task switching studies suggests performance-contingent reward as one modulating factor. Depending on the immediate reward history, reward prospect seems to promote either cognitive stability or flexibility: Increasing reward prospect reduced switch costs and increased the voluntary switch rate, suggesting increased cognitive flexibility. In contrast, remaining high reward prospect increased switch costs and reduced the voluntary switch rate, suggesting increased cognitive stability. Recently we suggested that increasing reward prospect serves as a meta-control signal toward cognitive flexibility by lowering the updating threshold in working memory. However, in task switching paradigms with two tasks only, this could alternatively be explained by facilitated switching to the other of two tasks. To address this issue, a series of task switching experiments with uncued task switching between three univalent tasks was conducted. Results showed a reduction in reaction time (RT) switch costs to a nonsignificant difference and a high voluntary switch rate when reward prospect increased, whereas repetition RTs were faster, switch RTs slower, and voluntary switch rate was reduced when reward prospect remained high. That is, increasing reward prospect put participants in a state of equal readiness to respond to any target stimulus-be it a task repetition or a switch to one of the other two tasks. The study thus provides further evidence for the assumption that increasing reward prospect serves as a meta-control signal to increase cognitive flexibility, presumably by lowering the updating threshold in working memory.



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DokumentenartArtikel
Titel eines Journals oder einer ZeitschriftCognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience
Verlag:Springer
Ort der Veröffentlichung:NEW YORK
Datum2020
InstitutionenHumanwissenschaften > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie II (Allgemeine und Angewandte Psychologie) - Prof. Dr. Gesine Dreisbach
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WertTyp
10.3758/s13415-020-00825-1DOI
Stichwörter / KeywordsCOMPUTATIONAL MODELS; POSITIVE AFFECT; MENTAL REPRESENTATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; DOPAMINE; STABILITY; MECHANISMS; COSTS; MAINTENANCE; BENEFITS; Meta-control; Reward; Flexibility; Stability; Task switching
Dewey-Dezimal-Klassifikation100 Philosophie und Psychologie > 150 Psychologie
StatusVeröffentlicht
BegutachtetJa, diese Version wurde begutachtet
An der Universität Regensburg entstandenJa
URN der UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-448175
Dokumenten-ID44817

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