Type of Publication: | Journal article |
URI (citable link): | http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-opus-127632 |
Author: | Hübner, Ronald; Schlösser, Jan |
Year of publication: | 2010 |
Published in: | Psychonomic Bulletin & Review ; 17 (2010), 6. - pp. 821-826 |
DOI (citable link): | https://dx.doi.org/10.3758/PBR.17.6.821 |
Summary: |
An important question is whether monetary reward can increase attentional effort in order to improve performance. Up to now, evidence for a positive answer is weak. Therefore, in the present study, the flanker task was used to examine this question further. Participants had to respond sooner than a certain deadline in a flanker task. One group of participants received a performance-contingent monetary reward, whereas the other group earned a fixed amount of money. As a result, monetary reward significantly improved performance in comparison with the control group. The analysis of speed accuracy trade-off functions revealed that monetary reward increased attentional effort, leading to an enhanced quality of stimulus coding. Little evidence was found that reward also improved selective spatial attention.
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Subject (DDC): | 150 Psychology |
Link to License: | In Copyright |
Bibliography of Konstanz: | Yes |
HÜBNER, Ronald, Jan SCHLÖSSER, 2010. Monetary reward increases attentional effort in the flanker task. In: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 17(6), pp. 821-826. Available under: doi: 10.3758/PBR.17.6.821
@article{Hubner2010Monet-11233, title={Monetary reward increases attentional effort in the flanker task}, year={2010}, doi={10.3758/PBR.17.6.821}, number={6}, volume={17}, journal={Psychonomic Bulletin & Review}, pages={821--826}, author={Hübner, Ronald and Schlösser, Jan} }
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