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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Grogan JP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7599069 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
eLife 20201001
We can be motivated when reward depends on performance, or merely by the prospect of a guaranteed reward. Performance-dependent (contingent) reward is instrumental, relying on an internal action-outcome model, whereas motivation by guaranteed reward may minimise opportunity cost in reward-rich environments. Competing theories propose that each type of motivation should be dependent on dopaminergic activity. We contrasted these two types of motivation with a rewarded saccade task, in patients wit ...[more]