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SUMMARY:The influence of anticipated monetary incentives on visual working
  memory performance in healthy younger and older adults - Stella Wernicke
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CONTACT:Adam Triabhall
DESCRIPTION:This week we will discuss and debate a recent paper by Manga a
 nd colleagues\, published in Scientific Reports (2020).\n\nAbstract: “Mo
 tivation exerts substantial control over cognitive functions\, including w
 orking memory. Although it is well known that both motivational control an
 d working memory processes undergo a progressive decline with ageing\, whe
 ther and to what extent their interaction is altered in old age remain une
 xplored. Here we aimed at uncovering the effect of reward anticipation on 
 visual working memory performance in a large cohort of younger and older a
 dults using a delayed-estimation task. We applied a three-component probab
 ilistic model to dissociate the reward effects on three possible sources o
 f error corrupting working memory performance: variability in recall\, mis
 binding of object features and random guessing. The results showed that mo
 netary incentives have a significant beneficial effect on overall working 
 memory recall precision only in the group of younger adults. However\, our
  model-based analysis resulted in significant reward effects on all three 
 working memory component processes\, which did not differ between the age 
 groups\, suggesting that model-based analysis is more sensitive to small r
 eward-induced modulations in the case of older participants. These finding
 s revealed that monetary incentives have a global boosting effect on worki
 ng memory performance\, which is deteriorated to some extent but still pre
 sent in healthy older adults” (Manga et al.\, 2020).\n\nReference: Manga
 \, A.\, Vakli\, P.\, & Vidnyánszky\, Z. (2020). The influence of anticipa
 ted monetary incentives on visual working memory performance in healthy yo
 unger and older adults. Scientific Reports\, 10(1)\, 8817–8817. https://
 doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65723-5
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