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  • Neuroscience
  • Decision-making

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  • Reward significantly influences cognitive control, particularly proactive control.
  • Performance contingent reward enhances preparatory control.
  • The effects of non-contingent reward on cognitive control are less understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the dissociative effects of performance contingent and non-contingent reward on cognitive control.
  • To examine how reward availability and contingency influence proactive control strategies.
  • To explore behavioral adaptations to varying reward structures.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments using an AX-Continuous Performance Task.
  • Reward contingency manipulated in mini-blocks (20 trials).
  • Performance contingent vs. non-contingent reward conditions.

Main Results:

  • Performance contingent reward significantly increased proactive control.
  • Non-contingent reward led to stable task rule compliance with less reliance on proactive control.
  • Error rates did not increase with non-contingent reward, even for errors.

Conclusions:

  • Contingent and non-contingent rewards differentially modulate cognitive control.
  • Non-contingent reward may support stable performance through reduced proactive control.
  • Findings highlight the nuanced role of reward in shaping cognitive control mechanisms.