Trial reportCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2014
Reward prospect rapidly speeds up response inhibition via reactive control.
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46 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A meta-analytic investigation of the role of reward on inhibitory control.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2021Pooled it
- The neural basis of motivational influences on cognitive control.Human brain mapping · 2018Pooled it
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- Drug cue enhances response conflict and reduces conflict adaptation in methamphetamine addiction.Psychological research · 2026Article
- The Difficulty in Numerical Computation Impacts Motor Decisions in a Stop-Signal Task.The European journal of neuroscience · 2026Article
- Mechanisms of Proactive Adaptation in a Rewarded Response Inhibition Task: Executive, Motor, or Attentional Effects?Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- The Cost of Regulating Effort: Reward and Difficulty Cues With Longer Prediction Horizons Have a Stronger Impact on Performance.Journal of cognition · 2025Article
- Enhanced proactive control under stress: divergent neural dynamics of social vs. Monetary rewards in table tennis athletes.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
- Inhibition of return emerges with non-predictive spatial cueing of the stop-signal.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Attentional spatial cueing of the stop-signal affects the ability to suppress behavioural responses.Experimental brain research · 2024Article
- Reward-based modulation of task-switching performance: a diffusion model analysis.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- Unraveling the influence of trial-based motivational changes on performance monitoring stages in a flanker task.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Motivation moderates gender differences in navigation performance.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- β-Bursts over Frontal Cortex Track the Surprise of Unexpected Events in Auditory, Visual, and Tactile Modalities.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2023Article
- Reward prospect affects strategic adjustments in stop signal task.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- More than skin deep: about the influence of self-relevant avatars on inhibitory control.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2022Article
- People with tobacco use disorder exhibit more prefrontal activity during preparatory control but reduced anterior cingulate activity during reactive control.Addiction biology · 2022Article
- The influence of associative reward learning on motor inhibition.Psychological research · 2022Article
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Abstract
Response inhibition is an important cognitive-control function that allows for already-initiated or habitual behavioral responses to be promptly withheld when needed. A typical paradigm to study this function is the stop-signal task. From this task, the stop-signal response time (SSRT) can be derived, which indexes how rapidly an already-initiated response can be canceled. Typically, SSRTs range around 200 ms, identifying response inhibition as a particularly rapid cognitive-control process. Even so, it has recently been shown that SSRTs can be further accelerated if successful response inhibition is rewarded. Since this earlier study effectively ruled out differential preparatory (proactive) control adjustments, the reward benefits likely relied on boosted reactive control. Yet, given how rapidly such control processes would need to be enhanced, alternative explanations circumventing reactive control are important to consider. We addressed this question with an fMRI study by gauging the overlap of the brain networks associated with reward-related and response-inhibition-related processes in a reward-modulated stop-signal task. In line with the view that reactive control can indeed be boosted swiftly by reward availability, we found that the activity in key brain areas related to response inhibition was enhanced for reward-related stop trials. Furthermore, we observed that this beneficial reward effect was triggered by enhanced connectivity between task-unspecific (reward-related) and task-specific (inhibition-related) areas in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). The present data hence suggest that reward information can be translated very rapidly into behavioral benefits (here, within ~200 ms) through enhanced reactive control, underscoring the immediate responsiveness of such control processes to reward availability in general.
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