Motivation and cognitive control: from behavior to neural mechanism

M Botvinick, T Braver - Annual review of psychology, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Research on cognitive control and executive function has long recognized the relevance of
motivational factors. Recently, however, the topic has come increasingly to center stage, with …

Aversive motivation and cognitive control

DM Yee, X Leng, A Shenhav, TS Braver - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2022 - Elsevier
Aversive motivation plays a prominent role in driving individuals to exert cognitive control.
However, the complexity of behavioral responses attributed to aversive incentives creates …

Affective modulation of cognitive control: A biobehavioral perspective

H van Steenbergen - Handbook of biobehavioral approaches to self …, 2014 - Springer
One important function of cognitive control is to continuously adapt the cognitive system to
changes in situational demands. This chapter discusses how affective and motivational …

Dissociable influences of reward and punishment on adaptive cognitive control

X Leng, D Yee, H Ritz, A Shenhav - PLoS computational biology, 2021 - journals.plos.org
To invest effort into any cognitive task, people must be sufficiently motivated. Whereas prior
research has focused primarily on how the cognitive control required to complete these …

The association of WTELS as a master motivator with higher executive functioning and better mental health

IA Kira, YE Ayna, HAM Shuwiekh, JS Ashby - Current Psychology, 2021 - Springer
The goal is to test the validity of the “Will to exist-live and survive (WTELS) as a master
motivator that activates executive functions. A sample of 262 adults administered different …

Differential modulation of cognitive control networks by monetary reward and punishment

A Cubillo, AB Makwana, TA Hare - Social Cognitive and …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Incentives are primary determinants of if and how well an organism will perform a given
behavior. Here, we examined how incentive valence and magnitude influence task …

Parsing the effects of reward on cognitive control

W Notebaert, S Braem - Motivation and cognitive control, 2015 - taylorfrancis.com
Understanding how reward modulates human behavior and information processing has
been a core challenge for psychologists for decades. In recent years an increasing number …

The selective use of punishments on congruent versus incongruent trials in the Stroop task

Q Yang, J **ng, S Braem, G Pourtois - Neurobiology of Learning and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Conflict adaptation refers to the dynamic modulation of conflict processing across
successive trials and reflects improved cognitive control. Interestingly, aversive motivation …

Conflict-driven adaptive control is enhanced by integral negative emotion on a short time scale

Q Yang, G Pourtois - Cognition and Emotion, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Negative emotion influences cognitive control, and more specifically conflict adaptation.
However, discrepant results have often been reported in the literature. In this study, we …

Keep calm and be patient: The influence of anxiety and time on post-error adaptations

L Van der Borght, S Braem, M Stevens, W Notebaert - Acta Psychologica, 2016 - Elsevier
Individual differences in anxiety and punishment sensitivity have an impact on
electrophysiological markers of error processing and the orienting of attention to threatening …