Jingjing Zhao, Yunfei Gao, Sicen Zhou, Chi Yan, Xiaoqian Hu, Fangxing Song, Saisai Hu, Yonghui Wang, Feng Kong
Reward has been known to render the reward-associated stimulus more salient to block effective attentional orienting in space. However, whether and how reward influences goal-directed attention in time remains unclear. Here, we used a modified attentional cueing paradigm to explore the effect of reward on temporal attention, in which the valid targets were given a low monetary reward and invalid targets were given a high monetary reward. The results showed that the temporal cue validity effect was significantly smaller when the competitive reward structure was employed (Experiment 1), and we ruled out the possibility that the results were due to the practice effect (Experiment 2a) or a reward-promoting effect (Experiment 2b)...
April 18, 2024: Psychological Research