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Conscious and Unconscious Reward Cues Can Affect a Critical Component of Executive Control: (Un)conscious updating?
Bustin, Gaëlle; Capa, Rémi; Cleermans, Axel et al.
2011Cognitive Science Society
 

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Keywords :
Conscious and unconscious processing; Executive control; Updating; Reward; Effort
Abstract :
[en] The present study investigates whether updating an important function of executive control can be driven by unconscious reward cues. Participants had to memorize several numbers and update those numbers independently according to a sequence of arithmetic operations. At the beginning of each trial, a reward (1 euro or 5 cents) was presented, either subliminally or supraliminally. Participants could earn the reward if they found the correct response on the updating task. Results showed better performance when a high (conscious or unconscious) reward was at stake compared to a low reward. This suggests that subliminal information can influence a component process of executive control traditionally thought to require consciousness.
Disciplines :
Theoretical & cognitive psychology
Author, co-author :
Bustin, Gaëlle ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Psycho. de la personnalité et des différences individuelles
Capa, Rémi ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Psycho. de la personnalité et des différences individuelles
Cleermans, Axel;  Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB > Consciousness, Cognition & Computation Group
Hansenne, Michel  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Psycho. de la personnalité et des différences individuelles
Language :
English
Title :
Conscious and Unconscious Reward Cues Can Affect a Critical Component of Executive Control: (Un)conscious updating?
Publication date :
July 2011
Event name :
Cognitive Science Society
Event place :
Boston, United States - Massachusetts
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