ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2017
High monetary reward rates and caloric rewards decrease temporal persistence.
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- When to quit: Calibration of voluntary persistence and attempted suicide in depression.Behaviour research and therapy · 2026Article
- Lesions to Different Regions of the Frontal Cortex Have Dissociable Effects on Voluntary Persistence in Humans.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Lesions to different regions of frontal cortex have dissociable effects on voluntary persistence.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Statistical information about reward timing is insufficient for promoting optimal persistence decisions.Cognition · 2023Article
- Dopamine and the interdependency of time perception and reward.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021Review
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- Uncertainty and computational complexity.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Article
- The effects of acute stress on the calibration of persistence.Neurobiology of stress · 2018Article
- Resource Signaling via Blood Glucose in Embodied Decision Making.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- High monetary reward rates and caloric rewards decrease temporal persistence.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
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Abstract
Temporal persistence refers to an individual's capacity to wait for future rewards, while forgoing possible alternatives. This requires a trade-off between the potential value of delayed rewards and opportunity costs, and is relevant to many real-world decisions, such as dieting. Theoretical models have previously suggested that high monetary reward rates, or positive energy balance, may result in decreased temporal persistence. In our study, 50 fasted participants engaged in a temporal persistence task, incentivised with monetary rewards. In alternating blocks of this task, rewards were delivered at delays drawn randomly from distributions with either a lower or higher maximum reward rate. During some blocks participants received either a caloric drink or water. We used survival analysis to estimate participants' probability of quitting conditional on the delay distribution and the consumed liquid. Participants had a higher probability of quitting in blocks with the higher reward rate. Furthermore, participants who consumed the caloric drink had a higher probability of quitting than those who consumed water. Our results support the predictions from the theoretical models, and importantly, suggest that both higher monetary reward rates and physiologically relevant rewards can decrease temporal persistence, which is a crucial determinant for survival in many species.
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