Conditioning task switching behavior

•Reward studies often focus on the reinforcement of simple tasks.•This study disproportionally rewarded task repetitions versus alternations.•People rewarded more for task alternations show more voluntary task switching.•These findings suggest that abstract control representations can be conditioned...

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Published in:Cognition 2017-09, Vol.166, p.272-276
Main Author: Braem, Senne
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavior
Cognition
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive ability
Cognitive control
Conditioning
Learning
Reinforcement
Reinforcement learning
Reward
Stimuli
Stimulus
Task switching
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