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Titel: Motivational Influences on Performance Monitoring and Cognitive Control Across the Adult Lifespan
VerfasserIn: Ferdinand, Nicola K.
Czernochowski, Daniela
Sprache: Englisch
Titel: Frontiers in Psychology
Bandnummer: 9
Verlag/Plattform: Frontiers
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Freie Schlagwörter: cognitive control
performance monitoring
adult lifespan
incentives
motivation
DDC-Sachgruppe: 150 Psychologie
Dokumenttyp: Journalartikel / Zeitschriftenartikel
Abstract: Cognitive control refers to the ability to regulate cognitive processing according to the tasks at hand, especially when these are demanding. It includes maintaining and updating relevant information in working memory, inhibiting irrelevant information, and flexibly switching between tasks. Performance monitoring denotes the processing of feedback from the environment and the detection of errors or other unexpected events and signals when cognitive control needs to be exerted. These two aspects of behavioral adaptation critically rely on the integrity of the frontal lobes, which are known to show pronounced age-related performance decrements. By contrast, there is evidence that processing of rewards remains relatively intact across the adult lifespan. Hence, motivation may play an important role in modulating or even counteracting age-related changes in cognitive control functions. To answer this question, neuroscientific data can be particularly useful to uncover potential underlying mechanisms beyond behavioral outcome. The aims of this article are twofold: First, to review and systematize the extant literature on how motivational incentives can modulate performance monitoring and cognitive control in young and older adults. Second, to demonstrate that important pieces of empirical data are currently missing for the evaluation of this central question, specifically in old age. Hence, we would like to stimulate further research uncovering potential mechanisms underlying motivation-cognition interactions in young and in particular in older adults and investigating whether or not those can help to ameliorate age-related impairments.
DOI der Erstveröffentlichung: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01018
URL der Erstveröffentlichung: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01018
Link zu diesem Datensatz: urn:nbn:de:bsz:291--ds-401273
hdl:20.500.11880/36121
http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-40127
ISSN: 1664-1078
Datum des Eintrags: 17-Jul-2023
Fakultät: HW - Fakultät für Empirische Humanwissenschaften und Wirtschaftswissenschaft
Fachrichtung: HW - Psychologie
Professur: HW - Keiner Professur zugeordnet
Sammlung:SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes

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