Motivation & Cognitive Control

In recent years, there has been growing interest in characterizing how motivation interacts with cognitive control to promote goal-directed behavior. My work has examined how multiple incentive types (e.g., liquid, social, monetary) influence motivational processing and how this changes across the adult life span.

Relevant Publications:

Crawford, J.L., Yee, D.M., Hallenbeck, H.W., Naumann, A., Shapiro, K., Thompson, R.J., & Braver, T.S. (2020). Dissociable effects of monetary, liquid, and social incentives on motivation and cognitive control. Frontiers in Cognition, 11, 2212.

Yee, D.M., Crawford, J.L., Lamichhane, B., & Braver, T.S. (2021) Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex encodes the subjective motivational value of cognitive task performance. Journal of Neuroscience, 41(16), 3703-3720.