Resumen de Dopamine and the cognitive downside of a promised bonus

Esther Aarts, Deanna L. Wallace, Linh C. Dang, William J. Jagust, Roshan Cools

• It is often assumed that the promise of a monetary bonus improves cognitive control. We show that in fact appetitive motivation can also impair cognitive control, depending on baseline levels of dopamine-synthesis capacity in the striatum. These data not only demonstrate that appetitive motivation can have paradoxical detrimental effects for cognitive control but also provide a mechanistic account of these effects.