Anything you can do, you can do better: neural substrates of incentive-based performance enhancement.

Performance-based pay schemes in many organizations share the fundamental assumption that the performance level for a given task will increase as a function of the amount of incentive provided. Consistent with this notion, psychological studies have demonstrated that expectations of reward can impro...

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Main Authors: Mimi Liljeholm, John P O'Doherty
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-02-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3283544?pdf=render