Long-lasting effects of performance-contingent unconscious and conscious reward incentives during cued task-switching

Cortex

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1943-1954

  Capa, Rémi L ^a   Bouquet, Cédric A ^b   Dreher, Jean Claude ^c   Dufour, André ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d Université de Strasbourg Faculté de Psychologie   (France)

Author keywords

Conscious and unconscious motivation; Executive function; Goal; Reward; Switch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; RESPONSE TIME; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; WORKING MEMORY;

ALPHA RHYTHM; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REWARD; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; THETA RHYTHM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879464002     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2012.05.018     Document Type: Article

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