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How Sequentially Changing Reward Prospect Modulates Meta-control: Increasing Reward Prospect Promotes Cognitive Flexibility
Fröber, Kerstin
and Dreisbach, Gesine
(2020)
How Sequentially Changing Reward Prospect Modulates Meta-control: Increasing Reward Prospect Promotes Cognitive Flexibility.
Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience.
Date of publication of this fulltext: 09 Feb 2021 07:39
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DOI to cite this document: 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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| Item type | Article | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title | Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience | ||||
| Publisher: | Springer | ||||
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| Place of Publication: | NEW YORK | ||||
| Date | 2020 | ||||
| Institutions | Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie II (Allgemeine und Angewandte Psychologie) - Prof. Dr. Gesine Dreisbach | ||||
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| Keywords | COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; POSITIVE AFFECT; MENTAL REPRESENTATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; DOPAMINE; STABILITY; MECHANISMS; COSTS; MAINTENANCE; BENEFITS; Meta-control; Reward; Flexibility; Stability; Task switching | ||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology | ||||
| Status | Published | ||||
| Refereed | Yes, this version has been refereed | ||||
| Created at the University of Regensburg | Yes | ||||
| URN of the UB Regensburg | urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-448175 | ||||
| Item ID | 44817 |
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