Trial reportSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2016
Motivational incentives lead to a strong increase in lateral prefrontal activity after self-control exertion.
Trial report in Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.
- Can Self-Regulatory Strength Training Counter Prior Mental Exertion? A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.Frontiers in public health · 2022Pooled it
- The associations between attentional control, episodic memory, and Alzheimer's disease biomarkers of tau and neurodegeneration.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2025Article
- Consistent activation differences versus differences in consistent activation: Evaluating meta-analytic contrasts.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- The Effect of Autonomy and Self-Control on Changes in Healthy Lifestyles of Inactive College Students through Regular Exercise.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- After-effects of self-control: The reward responsivity hypothesis.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2019Review
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- Mental Fatigue Impairs Endurance Performance: A Physiological Explanation.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2018Review
- Effects of Cognitive Control Exertion and Motor Coordination on Task Self-Efficacy and Muscular Endurance Performance in Children.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2018Article
- Distinct neural processes support post-success and post-error slowing in the stop signal task.Neuroscience · 2017Article
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Self-control is key to success in life. Initial acts of self-control temporarily impair subsequent self-control performance. Why such self-control failures occur is unclear, with prominent models postulating a loss of a limited resource vs a loss of motivation, respectively. Here, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging to identify the neural correlates of motivation-induced benefits on self-control. Participants initially exerted or did not exert self-control. In a subsequent Stroop task, participants performed worse after exerting self-control, but not if they were motivated to perform well by monetary incentives. On the neural level, having exerted self-control resulted in decreased activation in the left inferior frontal gyrus. Increasing motivation resulted in a particularly strong activation of this area specifically after exerting self-control. Thus, after self-control exertion participants showed more prefrontal neural activity without improving performance beyond baseline level. These findings suggest that impaired performance after self-control exertion may not exclusively be due to a loss of motivation.
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