ArticleExperimental brain research2014
Task relevance regulates the interaction between reward expectation and emotion.
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- Arousal-driven interactions between reward motivation and categorization of emotional facial expressions.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- The Effects of Reward on Associative Memory Depend on Unitization Depths.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Reward Expectation Differentially Modulates Global and Local Spatial Working Memory Accuracy.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Emotional Interference in Early Adolescence: Positive Reinforcement Modulates the Behavioral and Neural Effects of Negative Emotional Distracters.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2020Article
- Emotional Contexts Modulate Anticipatory Late Positive Component and Reward Feedback Negativity in Adolescents With Major Depressive Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Regulatory Effects of Reward Anticipation and Target on Attention Processing of Emotional Stimulation.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Money or smiles: Independent ERP effects of associated monetary reward and happy faces.PloS one · 2018Article
- Potential reward reduces the adverse impact of negative distractor stimuli.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2017Article
- Reward expectation regulates brain responses to task-relevant and task-irrelevant emotional words: ERP evidence.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2016Article
- Independent effects of reward expectation and spatial orientation on the processing of emotional facial expressions.Experimental brain research · 2015Article
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Abstract
In the present study, we investigated the impact of reward expectation on the processing of emotional facial expression using a cue-target paradigm. A cue indicating the reward condition of each trial (incentive vs. non-incentive) was followed by the presentation of a picture of an emotional face, the target. Participants were asked to discriminate the emotional expression of the target face in Experiment 1, to discriminate the gender of the target face in Experiment 2, and to judge a number superimposed on the center of the target face as even or odd in Experiment 3, rendering the emotional expression of the target face as task relevant in Experiment 1 but task irrelevant in Experiments 2 and 3. Faster reaction times (RTs) were observed in the monetary incentive condition than in the non-incentive condition, demonstrating the effect of reward on facilitating task concentration. Moreover, the reward effect (i.e., RTs in non-incentive conditions versus incentive conditions) was larger for emotional faces than for neutral faces when emotional expression was task relevant but not when it was task irrelevant. The findings suggest that top-down incentive motivation biased attentional processing toward task-relevant stimuli, and that task relevance played an important role in regulating the influence of reward expectation on the processing of emotional stimuli.
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