2024
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-024-10092-z
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Financial and prosocial rewards differentially enhance cognition in younger and older healthy adults

Nadine Schmidt,
Marta Menéndez-Granda,
Patric Wyss
et al.

Abstract: The prospect of a reward can enhance cognitive performance. For younger men financial gains, and for older adults and women prosocial rewards, seem particularly motivating. We therefore investigated whether adding a prosocial component to a financial reward enhanced cognitive performance and, if so, whether this depended on age or sex. We randomly assigned 571 participants to one of three reward types (financial reward, prosocial reward, or a combination of both) in a monetary incentive delay task. We used lin… Show more

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