Research on cognitive control and executive function has long recognized the relevance of
motivational factors. Recently, however, the topic has come increasingly to center stage, with …

People have a strong tendency to attend to reward cues, even if these cues are irrelevant to
their current goal or their current task. When reward cues are goal-irrelevant, their presence …

Response inhibition is an important cognitive-control function that allows for already-initiated
or habitual behavioral responses to be promptly withheld when needed. A typical paradigm …

The prospect of gaining money is an incentive widely at play in the real world. Such
monetary motivation might have particularly strong influence when the cognitive system is …

Recently, attempts have been made to disentangle the neural underpinnings of preparatory
processes related to reward and attention. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) …

The dual mechanisms of control account suggests that cognitive control may be
implemented through relatively proactive mechanisms in anticipation of stimulus onset, or …

Monetary and a social incentive delay tasks were used to characterize reward anticipation
and delivery with electroencephalography. During reward anticipation, N1, P2 and P3 …

Reward anticipation is a complex process including cue evaluation, motor preparation, and
feedback anticipation. The present study investigated whether these psychological …

Ample research shows that spending time in natural (vs. urban) environments, or merely
watching nature scenes, can seemingly replenish depleted cognitive resources and thereby …

Cognitive control can be considered as a set of functions that enable people to adapt to
changing demands in their environment and to optimise the behaviour accordingly. The …