Trial reportThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2014
Better get back to work: a role for motor beta desynchronization in incentive motivation.
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- Computational signatures of exertion and rest underlie moment-to-moment dynamics of subjective perceptions of effort and fatigue.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Emotion regulation strategies explain associations of theta and Beta with positive affect.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Apathy scores in Parkinson's disease relate to EEG components in an incentivized motor task.Brain communications · 2024Article
- From Motivation to Action: Action Cost Better Predicts Changes in Premovement Beta-Band Activity than Speed.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Extreme conditions affect neuronal oscillations of cerebral cortices in humans in the China Space Station and on Earth.Communications biology · 2022Article
- Theta but not beta activity is modulated by freedom of choice during action selection.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Motor Preparation and Execution for Performance Difficulty: Centroparietal Beta Activation during the Effort Expenditure for Rewards Task as a Function of Motivation.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Neural and computational mechanisms of momentary fatigue and persistence in effort-based choice.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Trait anxiety on effort allocation to monetary incentives: a behavioral and high-density EEG study.Translational psychiatry · 2019Article
- Probing the limits of activity-silent non-conscious working memory.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- Luring the Motor System: Impact of Performance-Contingent Incentives on Pre-Movement Beta-Band Activity and Motor Performance.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019Article
- Single-trial EEG dissociates motivation and conflict processes during decision-making under risk.NeuroImage · 2019Article
- Altered EEG alpha and theta oscillations characterize apathy in Parkinson's disease during incentivized movement.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2019Article
- Cortical dynamics within and between parietal and motor cortex in essential tremor.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2019Article
- What Makes You Go Faster?: The Effect of Reward on Speeded Action under Risk.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- Beta-band activity and connectivity in sensorimotor and parietal cortex are important for accurate motor performance.NeuroImage · 2017Article
- Neuronal firing patterns outweigh circuitry oscillations in parkinsonian motor control.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2016Article
- Motivational state, reward value, and Pavlovian cues differentially affect skilled forelimb grasping in rats.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2016Article
- Neural activity underlying motor-action preparation and cognitive narrowing in approach-motivated goal states.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2016Article
- How the brain decides when to work and when to rest: dissociation of implicit-reactive from explicit-predictive computational processes.PLoS computational biology · 2014Article
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Abstract
Much research has been devoted to characterizing brain representations of reward and movement. However, the mechanisms allowing expected rewards to influence motor commands remain poorly understood. Unraveling such mechanisms is crucial to providing explanations of how behavior can be driven by goals, hence accounting for apathy cases in clinics. Here, we propose that the reduction of motor beta synchrony (MBS) before movement onset could participate in this incentive motivation process. To test this hypothesis, we recorded brain activity using magnetoencenphalography (MEG) while human participants were exerting physical effort to win monetary incentives. Knowing that the payoff was proportional to the time spent above a target force, subjects spontaneously took breaks when exhausted and resumed effort production when repleted. Behavioral data indicated that the rest periods were shorter when higher incentives were at stake. MEG data showed that the amplitude of MBS reduction correlated to both incentive level and rest duration. Moreover, the time of effort initiation could be predicted by MBS reduction measured at the beginning of rest periods. Incentive effects on MBS reduction and rest duration were also correlated across subjects. Finally, Bayesian comparison between possible causal models suggested that MBS reduction mediates the impact of incentive level on rest duration. We conclude that MBS reduction could represent a neural mechanism that speeds the initiation of effort production when the effort is more rewarded.
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