ArticleExperimental brain research2017
Effort provides its own reward: endeavors reinforce subjective expectation and evaluation of task performance.
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- When the Counterpart Chooses the Opposite: The First Mover's Anticipation and Evaluation of the Final Feedback in Gambles.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- P300 as a neural indicator for setting levels of goal scores in educational gamification applications from the perspective of intrinsic motivation: An ERP study.Frontiers in neuroergonomics · 2022Article
- EEG correlates of physical effort and reward processing during reinforcement learning.Journal of neurophysiology · 2020Article
- Cognitive Persistence and Executive Function in the Multilingual Brain During Aging.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Anticipating cognitive effort: roles of perceived error-likelihood and time demands.Psychological research · 2019Article
- The Effort Paradox: Effort Is Both Costly and Valued.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2018Review
- Taking Others as a Mirror: Contingent Social Comparison Promotes Task Engagement.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2018Article
- Inverted U-Shaped Curvilinear Relationship between Challenge and One's Intrinsic Motivation: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2017Article
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Abstract
Although many studies have investigated the relationship between the amount of effort invested in a certain task and one's attitude towards the subsequent reward, whether exerted effort would impact one's expectation and evaluation of performance feedback itself still remains to be examined. In the present study, two types of calculation tasks that varied in the required effort were adopted, and we resorted to electroencephalography to probe the temporal dynamics of how exerted effort would affect one's anticipation and evaluation of performance feedback. In the high-effort condition, a more salient stimulus-preceding negativity was detected during the anticipation stage, which was accompanied with a more salient FRN/P300 complex (a more positive P300 and a less negative feedback-related negativity) in response to positive outcomes in the evaluation stage. These results suggested that when more effort was invested, an enhanced anticipatory attention would be paid toward one's task performance feedback and that positive outcomes would be subjectively valued to a greater extent.
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