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Frederick Verbruggen¹, Rachel Adams, Christopher D Chambers

¹Psychology, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Washington Singer Laboratories, Streatham Campus, Exeter, EX4 4QG, United Kingdom. f.l.j.verbruggen@exeter.ac.uk

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Behavioral Economics
Neurorehabilitation

Background:

Executive system dysfunction, particularly in the right prefrontal cortex, is linked to increased gambling risk-taking.
Multitasking is often associated with heightened risk-taking due to interference between concurrent executive processes.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether multitasking can reduce, rather than increase, risk-taking in gambling.
To explore the impact of inhibitory training on monetary risk-taking.

Main Methods:

A novel monetary decision-making paradigm was employed.
Participants engaged in a task inducing cautious motor responding during multitasking.
Inhibitory training was administered in separate experiments.

Main Results:

Performing a task requiring cautious motor responding reduced gambling in a multitasking setting.
A brief period of inhibitory training decreased gambling behavior for at least two hours post-training.

Conclusions:

Proactive motor control significantly influences monetary risk-taking in gambling.
The interplay between control systems at different cognitive levels offers potential for novel addiction and impulse-control disorder rehabilitation strategies.