title: Dopamine and the cognitive downside of a promised bonus.
abstract: It is often assumed that the promise of a monetary bonus improves cognitive control. We show that in fact appetitive motivation can also impair cognitive control, depending on baseline levels of dopamine-synthesis capacity in the striatum. These data not only demonstrate that appetitive motivation can have paradoxical detrimental effects for cognitive control but also provide a mechanistic account of these effects.
authors: 1Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley.
authors: Esther
authors: E
authors: Aarts
authors: Deanna L
authors: DL
authors: Wallace
authors: Linh C
authors: LC
authors: Dang
authors: William J
authors: WJ
authors: Jagust
authors: Roshan
authors: R
authors: Cools
authors: Mark
authors: M
authors: D'Esposito
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D003071:Cognition; D004298:Dopamine / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D017072:Neostriatum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000502:physiology; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D012201:Reward; D057190:Stroop Test; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D004298:Dopamine
keywords: PET; attention; cognition; dopamine; motivation; striatum