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- Title
A new perspective on human reward research: How consciously and unconsciously perceived reward information influences performance.
- Authors
Zedelius, Claire; Veling, Harm; Custers, Ruud; Bijleveld, Erik; Chiew, Kimberly; Aarts, Henk
- Abstract
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 topic have focused solely on consciously communicated rewards. Recently, a largely neuroscience-inspired perspective has emerged to examine the potential role of conscious awareness of reward information in effective reward pursuit. The present article reviews research employing a newly developed monetary-reward-priming paradigm that allows for a systematic investigation of this perspective. We analyze this research to identify similarities and differences in how consciously and unconsciously perceived rewards impact three distinct aspects relevant to performance: decision making, task preparation, and task execution. We further discuss whether conscious awareness, in modulating the effects of reward information, plays a role similar to its role in modulating the effects of other affective information. Implications of these insights for understanding the role of consciousness in modulating goal-directed behavior more generally are discussed.
- Subjects
REWARD (Psychology); MOTIVATION (Psychology); CONSCIOUSNESS; SUBCONSCIOUSNESS; NEUROSCIENCES; DECISION making
- Publication
Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 2014, Vol 14, Issue 2, p493
- ISSN
1530-7026
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/s13415-013-0241-z