Science news articles about 'monetary rewards'

... stimuli, a blue and a yellow square that either predicted or did not predict a potential monetary reward. Prior to each trial, participants were also given a written cue that instructed them to ...

... fMRI) to monitor brain activity as participants played a game involving cues that predicted monetary rewards and penalties. "We found that, in comparison to community controls, young adults who had ...

... a bra, men are more likely to be content with a smaller immediate monetary reward," writes Bram Van den Bergh, one of the study's authors. "Prior exposure to sexy stimuli may ...

... whether they were going to cooperate with each other or defect against their partner in exchange for a monetary reward. If they both separately decided to cooperate, they would earn $24 each. If one ...

... whether they were going to cooperate with each other or defect against their partner in exchange for a monetary reward. If they both privately said they would cooperate, they both earned $3. If just ...

... these patients and, therefore, enhance their sociability. It may also mean that social rather than, say, monetary rewards may prove to be better incentives for training persons with the syndrome to ...

... simple game that sometimes gave them a monetary reward for correct answers, according to a new study ... normally activates when an expected reward stops. However, this process, called extinction, doesn't ...

... levels were lowest during the least "interesting," or salient, version of the test — when there was no monetary reward and the words shown were neutral household terms. Within the cocaine-user group, ...

... tended to use could be predicted, surprisingly, by how their brain responded to rewards: if there were large responses to monetary reward in a brain area called the ventral striatum, that person ...

... had to decide whether the first or second electric current had a higher frequency. If they were correct, a monetary reward was displayed on a screen. The fact that the reward effect works when it is ...

... them a chance to choose between two different tasks, one hard, one difficult, to obtain monetary rewards. Participants were eligible but not guaranteed to receive money each time they completed a task ...