Recent years have seen a rejuvenation of interest in studies of motivation–cognition
interactions arising from many different areas of psychology and neuroscience. The present …

The question of how human performance can be improved through rewards is a recurrent
topic of interest in psychology and neuroscience. Traditional, cognitive approaches to this …

Studies of perceptual learning have revealed a great deal of plasticity in adult humans. In
this study, we systematically investigated the effects and mechanisms of several forms (trial …

The extent to which subjective awareness influences reward processing, and thereby affects
future decisions, is currently largely unknown. In the present report, we investigated this …

Executive control can be driven by conscious and unconscious monetary cues. This has
raised the exciting question regarding the role of conscious and unconscious reward in the …

Rewards act as external motivators and can improve performance in various cognitive tasks.
However, previous research demonstrated mixed findings regarding the effect of reward on …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to provide insight as to how middle-tier frequent flyers
react to witnessing the preferential treatment of a top-tier customer, how rule clarity …

Dogs have repeatedly been shown to give their paw to an experimenter more times for no
reward when a rewarded conspecific partner is absent than when a rewarded conspecific is …

In order to behave adaptively, attention can be directed in space either voluntarily (ie,
endogenously) according to strategic goals, or involuntarily (ie, exogenously) through …

Reward cues have been found to increase the investment of effort in tasks even when cues
are presented suboptimally (ie very briefly), making them hard to consciously detect. Such …