Recent years have seen a rejuvenation of interest in studies of motivation–cognition
interactions arising from many different areas of psychology and neuroscience. The present …

Motivation plays a central role in human behavior and cognition but is not well captured by
widely used artificial intelligence (AI) and computational modeling frameworks. This Opinion …

Core features of motivational states—approach, avoidance, engagement, and
disengagement—may be reliably measured from a variety of neurobiological changes …

Motivation, defined as the energizing of behavior in pursuit of a goal, is a fundamental
element of our interaction with the world and with each other. All animals share motivation to …

Highlights•Motivation may have a preferential impact on proactive cognitive control
mechanisms.•Dopamine signals may enhance control by modulating prefrontal task …

Motivational stimuli such as rewards elicit adaptive responses and influence various
cognitive functions. Notably, increasing evidence suggests that stimuli with particular …

Fundamental motives have direct implications for evolutionary fitness and orchestrate
attention, memory, and social inference in functionally specific ways. Motivational states …

Goals and needs shape individuals' thinking, a phenomenon known as motivated cognition.
We highlight research from social psychology and cognitive neuroscience that provides …

This book was conceived many years ago as an abstract goal for a father-son team when
the father was working in university administration and the son was just getting into the …

How can an individual be motivated to perform a target exercise or activity? This question
arises in training, therapeutic, and education settings alike, yet despite—or even because of …