Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex Encodes the Integrated Incentive Motivational Value of Cognitive Task Performance

Yee, Debbie; Crawford, Jennifer L.; Lamichhane, Bidhan; Braver, Todd S.

doi:10.1523/jneurosci.2550-20.2021

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“…Additionally, an important core assumption of the EVC model is that dACC "bundles" expected positive and negative outcomes into a net motivational value (e.g., mixed motivation) that modulates cognitive control signals in the brain (See Figure 6b). Recent work from a human fMRI study provides evidence in support of dACC's role in value integration and cognitive control (Yee et al, 2021). In particular, we used the incentive integration and cognitive control task (See Figure 4a) to explicitly test the hypothesis that bundled neural signals in dACC encoded the motivational value of monetary and liquid incentives in terms of their influence on cognitive performance and self-reported motivating ratings.…”

Section: Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex and The Expected Value Of Controlmentioning

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“…An experimental paradigm that holds great promise for investigating aversive motivation on cognitive control is the incentive integration and cognitive control paradigm (Yee et al, 2016(Yee et al, , 2019(Yee et al, , 2021. This paradigm illustrated in Figure 4a parallels the outcome devaluation paradigm described earlier but replaces the instrumental conditioning procedure (e.g., lever pressing for a food reward) with a cognitive control task (cued task-switching).…”

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Aversive motivation and cognitive control

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Aversive motivation plays a prominent role in driving individuals to exert cognitive control.However, the complexity of behavioral responses attributed to aversive incentives creates significant challenges for developing a clear understanding of the neural mechanisms of this motivation-control interaction. We review the animal learning, systems neuroscience, and computational literatures to highlight the importance of experimental paradigms that incorporate both motivational context manipulations and mixed motivational components (e.g., bundling of appetitive and aversive incentives). Specifically, we postulate that to understand aversive incentive effects on cognitive control allocation, a critical contextual factor is whether such incentives are associated with negative reinforcement or punishment. We further illustrate how the inclusion of mixed motivational components in experimental paradigms enables increased precision in the measurement of aversive influences on cognitive control. A sharpened experimental and theoretical focus regarding the manipulation and assessment of distinct motivational dimensions promises to advance understanding of the neural, monoaminergic, and computational mechanisms that underlie the interaction of motivation and cognitive control.

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Aversive motivation and cognitive control

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Shenhav

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“…For instance, when earning rewards during a cognitive control task (e.g., Stroop) is contingent on both speed and accuracy, participants are faster and/or more accurate as potential rewards increase [11,[15][16][17]. While studies have examined how motivation to avoid negative outcomes influence cognitive control [18][19][20][21][22], a challenge of interpreting these mixed behavioral patterns is that participants deploy a variety of behavioral strategies as potential punishments increase [22,23]. Past work has demonstrated that these strategies, such as increased task processing (e.g., attentional focus) or adjusting decision thresholds, can be linked to different forms of control adjustment (e.g., prioritizing speed versus accuracy; [24][25][26][27]).…”

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Dissociable influences of reward and punishment on adaptive cognitive control

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To invest effort into any cognitive task, people must be sufficiently motivated. Whereas prior research has focused primarily on how the cognitive control required to complete these tasks is motivated by the potential rewards for success, it is also known that control investment can be equally motivated by the potential negative consequence for failure. Previous theoretical and experimental work has yet to examine how positive and negative incentives differentially influence the manner and intensity with which people allocate control. Here, we develop and test a normative model of control allocation under conditions of varying positive and negative performance incentives. Our model predicts, and our empirical findings confirm, that rewards for success and punishment for failure should differentially influence adjustments to the evidence accumulation rate versus response threshold, respectively. This dissociation further enabled us to infer how motivated a given person was by the consequences of success versus failure.

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“…Together, these data suggested that dACC is critical for processing the emotional content of faces. Previous research in the dACC suggests that this area is important for integrating different dimensions of motivationally-significant stimuli to encode value or emotion 26,27 . Our findings further support this view, suggesting dACC may play a role in integrating valence and intensity components of emotion during affective and salience processing.…”

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Intracranial EEG spectral feature analysis and focal brain stimulation reveal affective specialization within dorsal anterior cingulate cortex

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Emotion is represented in several limbic and prefrontal cortical brain areas herein referred to as the Affective Salience Network (ASN). Within this network, less is known about how valence and intensity are processed in the dorsal anterior cingulate (dACC), and how affective processes in dACC compare to activity in other nodes within the ASN. Using a novel spectral feature approach to analyze intracranial electrophysiological data, we discover hemispheric specialization in the dACC such that the right hemisphere is sensitive to intensity while the left hemisphere is sensitive to valence and negative affective bias. We further applied 130 Hz continuous stimulation to the anterior cingulum bundle while patients viewed emotional faces. Faces were rated happier in all patients, an effect modulated by baseline affective bias, suggesting a causal role for the dACC during the processing of external affective stimuli.

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Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex Encodes the Integrated Incentive Motivational Value of Cognitive Task Performance

Cited by 47 publications

References 109 publications

Aversive motivation and cognitive control

Aversive motivation and cognitive control

Dissociable influences of reward and punishment on adaptive cognitive control

Intracranial EEG spectral feature analysis and focal brain stimulation reveal affective specialization within dorsal anterior cingulate cortex

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