“Money for nothing”? Dissociating pro-active, re-active, and automatic reward influences on conflict processing and response inhibition Ghent University
Reward effects on cognitive functions have recently inspired a lot of research, not least because they offer a controllable window into neurocognitive effects of motivation in general, which is disturbed in a wide range of prominent brain-related disorders. Importantly, different traditions exist wherein reward effects on sensory and attentional processing are often ascribed to an automatic process that circumvents active top-down control ...