The Puzzling Relationship between Attention and Motivation: Do Motor Biases Matter?

Bello, Fabio Di; Giamundo, Margherita; Brunamonti, Emiliano; Cirillo, Rossella; Ferraina, Stefano

doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.03.011

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“…Task-relevant items can also be prioritized by a voluntary allocation of the attentional spotlight ( Posner 1980 ; Doricchi et al. 2009 ; Di Bello et al. 2019 ).…”

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Prefrontal Control of Proactive and Reactive Mechanisms of Visual Suppression

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In everyday life, we are continuously struggling at focusing on our current goals while at the same time avoiding distractions. Attention is the neuro-cognitive process devoted to the selection of behaviorally relevant sensory information while at the same time preventing distraction by irrelevant information. Distraction can be prevented proactively, by strategically prioritizing task-relevant information at the expense of irrelevant information, or reactively, by suppressing the ongoing processing of distractors. The distinctive neuronal signature of these suppressive mechanisms is still largely unknown. Thanks to machine-learning decoding methods applied to prefrontal cortical activity, we monitor the dynamic spatial attention with an unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution. We first identify independent behavioral and neuronal signatures for long-term (learning-based spatial prioritization) and short-term (dynamic spatial attention) mechanisms. We then identify distinct behavioral and neuronal signatures for proactive and reactive suppression mechanisms. We find that while distracting task-relevant information is suppressed proactively, task-irrelevant information is suppressed reactively. Critically, we show that distractor suppression, whether proactive or reactive, strongly depends on the implementation of both long-term and short-term mechanisms of selection. Overall, we provide a unified neuro-cognitive framework describing how the prefrontal cortex deals with distractors in order to flexibly optimize behavior in dynamic environments.

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“…Task-relevant items can also be prioritized by a voluntary allocation of the attentional spotlight ( Posner 1980 ; Doricchi et al. 2009 ; Di Bello et al. 2019 ).…”

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“…It can be stated that attention is related to motivation. Research conducted by Di Bello, Giamundo, Brunamonti, Cirillo, & Ferraina (2019) present evidence for this, where they find that attention and motivation interact exclusively, especially for spatial attention. Similarly, research conducted by Wilhelm, Miller, & Gable (2019) concluded that motivation is related to among them the scope of attention, where the narrowing of attention resulting from an increase in motivational status can improve performance and learning.…”

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Students' motivation to attend group guidance based on gender and ethnic

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Although group guidance is believed to be an effective and efficient service to facilitate the development of positive aspects and prevention of negative aspects of students, the frequency of its use for students is not optimal. This study aims to analyze student motivation to follow group guidance and differences in their motivation based on gender and ethnicity. The study used a comparative descriptive method. A total of 690 samples were involved in write-paper-and-pencil questionnaires, namely the students' motivation scale to attend group guidance, which was designed based on the Likert Scale model. We analyzed data using descriptive statistics and different test analysis using independent samples t-test and Bayesian method by applying JASP software. Analysis results showed that most students have the prime motivation to follow group guidance and there are significant differences in student motivation to follow group guidance based on gender, but in terms of ethnicity did not show any significant differences. School counselor can implement the findings of this study in determining group members in group guidance services.

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“…This finding suggests the existence of a dedicated neural pathway responsible for task-relevant information analysis, operating autonomously from reward and social information. 54 …”

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“…This experimental design allowed us to link social and motivational aspects to the interaction type variable. 54 , 70 …”

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Simultaneous oscillatory encoding of “hot” and “cold” information during social interactions in the monkey medial prefrontal cortex

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The Puzzling Relationship between Attention and Motivation: Do Motor Biases Matter?

Cited by 4 publications

References 38 publications

Prefrontal Control of Proactive and Reactive Mechanisms of Visual Suppression

Prefrontal Control of Proactive and Reactive Mechanisms of Visual Suppression

Students' motivation to attend group guidance based on gender and ethnic

Simultaneous oscillatory encoding of “hot” and “cold” information during social interactions in the monkey medial prefrontal cortex

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