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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology

Background:

  • Reward expectation is theorized to influence cognitive functions, including spatial working memory.
  • Previous research on reward's effect on spatial working memory has yielded conflicting results, necessitating further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the extent to which reward expectation affects spatial working memory performance.
  • To differentiate the impact of reward on global and local levels of spatial information processing.

Main Methods:

  • A memory-guided saccade task was employed to assess spatial working memory.
  • Participants retained and reconstructed temporospatial sequences of locations.
  • Global and local spatial working memory accuracies were calculated to analyze reward effects.

Main Results:

  • High reward expectation enhanced the initial encoding of spatial information.
  • Accuracy in fixating the cued location decreased as reward expectation increased.
  • Reward expectation improved the reconstruction of global temporospatial sequences but not local ones.
  • Enhanced local representations of uncued locations occurred at the expense of cued location representations.

Conclusions:

  • The effect of reward on spatial working memory is dependent on the level of processing (global vs. local).
  • Findings support the flexible resource theory, suggesting dynamic resource allocation during memory maintenance under reward anticipation.