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. 2014 Jul;18(7):340-1.
doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2014.03.010. Epub 2014 Apr 29.

Dopey dopamine: high tonic results in ironic performance

Brian Silston  1 , Dean Mobbs  2
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Dopey dopamine: high tonic results in ironic performance

Brian Silston et al. Trends Cogn Sci. 2014 Jul.

Abstract

Financial incentives are commonly used as motivational tools to enhance performance. Decades of research have established that the neurotransmitter dopamine (DA) is the fuel that propels reward-motivated behavior, yet a new PET study questions whether dopamine is beneficial to performance, showing that tonic DA synthesis predicts performance decrements when incentives are high.

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