ArticleFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2023
Parsing the contributions of negative affect vs. aversive motivation to cognitive control: an experimental investigation.
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- Diverging influences of punishment motivation and negative affect on cognitive control.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
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Introduction: Punishment is a powerful drive that fosters aversive motivation and increases negative affect. Previous studies have reported that this drive has the propensity to improve cognitive control, as shown by improved conflict processing when it is used. However, whether aversive motivation Methods: To address this question, we conducted two experiments where we administered the confound minimized Stroop task to a large group of participants each time ( Results: Both experiments consistently showed that negative affect increased at the subjective level when punishment was used and the feedback was contingent on task performance, with these two effects being additive. In Experiment 1, we found that when the feedback was contingent on task performance and punishment was activated, conflict processing did not improve. In Experiment 2, we found that conflict processing improved when punishment was contingent on task performance, and participants were aware of this contingency. Discussion: These results suggest that aversive motivation can improve conflict processing when participants are aware of the link created between punishment and performance.
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