Motivation and Cognitive Control

by Todd S. Braver (Editor)

Overview

Individuals do not always perform to their full capability on cognitive tasks. When this occurs, the usual explanation is that the individual was not properly motivated. But this begs the important question: How and why does motivation interact with and influence cognitive processing and the control processes that regulate it? What are the underlying mechanisms that govern such interactions? Motivation has been an important component of psychology and neuroscience throughout the history of the field, but has recently been rejuvenated by rapidly accelerating research interest in the nature of motivation-cognition interactions, particularly as they impact control processes and goal-directed behavior.

This volume provides an up-to-date snapshot of the state of research in this exciting, expanding area. The contributors to the volume are internationally-renowned researchers that lead the field in conducting groundbreaking studies. Moreover, they represent a variety of research perspectives and traditions: cognitive psychology and neuroscience, animal learning, social, affective, and personality psychology, and development, lifespan, and aging studies. This book summarizes our current state of understanding of the relationship between motivation and cognitive control, and serves as an essential reference for both students and researchers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848726451
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/18/2015
Series:	Frontiers of Cognitive Psychology
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Todd S. Braver, PhD, is a professor of psychology, neuroscience, and radiology at Washington University, St. Louis, where he has been since 1998. His educational training includes a BS in cognitive science from the University of California, San Diego, in 1992, and a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from Carnegie Mellon University in 1997. Dr. Braver codirects (with colleague Dr. Deanna Barch) the Cognitive Control and Psychopathology Laboratory at Washington University. His research uses convergent cognitive neuroscience methods to investigate the neural mechanisms of cognitive control processes. A particular focus is the function of the prefrontal cortex and its interaction with related brain systems in higher cognition, emotion, motivation, personality, and aging. Dr. Braver has authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles in some of the premier outlets of his field, including Science, Nature, PNAS, Neuron, and Nature Neuroscience. His research has been continuously funded by the NIH (NIMH, NIA, NIDA), NSF, ONR and private foundations through current and prior grants totaling over $12 million. Dr. Braver has received honors and awards for his research, including being named a McGuigan Young Investigator, an APS Fellow, and NIMH MERIT awardee.

Table of Contents

Part 1. Introduction Chapter 1. Motivation and cognitive control Todd Braver Part 2. Rewards, Cognitive Processing and Goal-Directed Control Chapter 2. The role of motivation in visual information processing Marcus Rothkirch and Philippe Sterzer Chapter 3. The impact of reward on attention: Beyond Motivation Brian Anderson and Anthony Sali Chapter 4. Within-trial effects of stimulus-reward associations Ruth Krebs, Jens-Max Hopf and Carsten Boehler Chapter 5. Motivational influences on cognitive control: The role of reward processing Mauricio Delgado, Susan Ravizza and Anthony Porcelli Chapter 6. Parsing the effects of reward on cognitive control Wim Notebaert and Senne Braem Chapter 7. Ideomotor mechanisms of goal-directed behavior Sanne de Wit and Anthony Dickinson Part 3. Affect, Conflict and Self-Regulation Chapter 8. How goals control behavior: The role of action-outcome and reward information Hans Marien, Henk Aarts and Ruud Custers Chapter 9. Affect, motivation, and cognitive scope Philip Gable, Lauren Browning and Eddie Harmon-Jones Chapter 10. Conflicts as aversive signals: Motivation for control adaptation in the service of affect regulation Gesine Dreisbach and Rico Fischer Chapter 11. Vigor and fatigue: How variation in affect underlies effective self-control Blair Saunders and Michael Inzlicht Chapter 12. The waste disposal problem of effortful control on Clay Holroyd Part 4. Age-related changes in cognitive motivation Chapter 13. The teen brain: "Arrested development" in resisting temptation BJ Casey and Adriana Galvan Chapter 14. Lifespan development of adaptive neurocognitive representations: Reciprocal interactions between cognition and motivation Shu-Chen Li and Ben Eppinger Chapter 15. Towards a three-factor motivation-learning framework in normal aging Todd Maddox, Marissa Gorlick and Darrell Worthy Chapter 16. Linkages between age-related changes in the costs of cognitive engagement, motivation, and behavior Thomas Hess and Brian Smith Chapter 17. Age-related changes in motivation: Do they influence emotional experience across adulthood and old age? Ishabel Vicaria and Derek Isaacowitz