Highlights
- •Action control in incentive context in PD
- •Incentive context makes it harder to control actions in healthy participants
- •Incentive context does not influence impulsive action selection in either group
- •Incentive context influences impulse suppression in patients
Abstract
The influence of promised rewards on conflict resolution processes is not clearly
defined in the literature, and the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Some
studies have shown no effect of reward, while others have demonstrated a beneficial
influence. In addition, although the basal ganglia are known to play a critical role
in the association between motivation and cognition, the influence of promised rewards
on conflict resolution processes in Parkinson's disease (PD) has received little attention.
In this context, we assessed the influence of promised rewards on both impulse activation
and suppression in 36 healthy participants and 36 patients with PD, using a rewarded
Simon task. Analysis of performances revealed that promised rewards worsened the overall
congruence effect, but only in healthy participants. Although the incentive context
did not modulate the congruence effect in patients, by using the activation-suppression
model, we were able to show that promised rewards did influence impulse suppression
in patients-but not in healthy participants. Suppressing inappropriate response activation
in an incentive context appears to be harder in medically treated Parkinson's disease.
This indicates that incentive motivation can modulate at least one cognitive process
involved in cognitive action control in patients with medically treated PD. The activation-suppression
model provides essential additional information concerning the influence of promised
rewards on conflict resolution processes in a pathological population.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: May 24, 2016
Accepted:
May 23,
2016
Received in revised form:
April 21,
2016
Received:
January 20,
2016
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