Reward Anticipation and Motivation¶
Scope: Anticipation of reward, consumption of reward, incentive salience, effort allocation, approach motivation, avoidance motivation.
Out of scope: Motivation as a trait; reward sensitivity as an individual difference.
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Open issues: None open.
This category contains 6 processes.
Approach motivation¶
Process ID: hed_approach_motivation
Tendency to engage with stimuli associated with positive outcomes.
Tasks that engage this process: Affective Picture Viewing Task, Balloon Analog Risk Task, Effort-Based Decision-Making Task, Iowa Gambling Task, Monetary Incentive Delay Task, Probabilistic Selection Task, Social Incentive Delay Task
Fundamental references
Gray (1982) The Neuropsychology of Anxiety
Further references
Elliot (2006) Motivation and Emotion 30:111–116 (DOI)
Avoidance motivation¶
Process ID: hed_avoidance_motivation
Tendency to disengage from stimuli associated with negative outcomes.
Tasks that engage this process: Affective Picture Viewing Task, Pavlovian Fear Conditioning Task, Probabilistic Selection Task
Fundamental references
Gray (1982) The Neuropsychology of Anxiety
Further references
Elliot (2006) Motivation and Emotion 30:111–116 (DOI)
Effort allocation¶
Process ID: hed_effort_allocation
Decision to expend physical or cognitive effort as a function of expected reward and cost.
Tasks that engage this process: Effort-Based Decision-Making Task
Fundamental references
Further references
Incentive salience¶
Process ID: hed_incentive_salience
“Wanting” attributed to reward-predictive cues, distinct from “liking.”
Tasks that engage this process: Monetary Incentive Delay Task, Social Incentive Delay Task
Fundamental references
Reward anticipation¶
Process ID: hed_reward_anticipation
Affective and neural response to cues predicting upcoming reward.
Tasks that engage this process: Balloon Analog Risk Task, Effort-Based Decision-Making Task, Monetary Incentive Delay Task, Social Incentive Delay Task
Fundamental references
Knutson, Adams, Fong & Hommer (2001) Journal of Neuroscience 21:RC159 (DOI)
Further references
Oldham, Murawski, Fornito, Youssef, Yücel & Lorenzetti (2018) Human Brain Mapping 39:3398–3418 (DOI)
Reward consumption¶
Process ID: hed_reward_consumption
Affective and neural response to receipt of reward.
Tasks that engage this process: none in the current Catalog.
Fundamental references
Further references