Investigating the influence of an effort-reward interaction on cognitive fatigue in individuals with multiple sclerosis

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This study examined whether an alteration in the effort-reward relationship, a theoretical framework based on cognitive neuroscience, could explain cognitive fatigue. Forty persons with MS and 40 healthy age- and education-matched cognitively healthy controls (HC) participated in a computerized switching task with orthogonal high- and low-demand (effort) and reward manipulations. We used the Visual Analog Scale of Fatigue (VAS-F) to assess subjective state fatigue before and after each condition during the task. We used mixed-effects models to estimate the association and interaction between effort and reward and their relationship to subjective fatigue and task performance. We found the high-demand condition was associated with increased VAS-F scores (p < .001), longer response times (RT) (p < .001) and lower accuracy (p < .001). The high-reward condition was associated with faster RT (p = .006) and higher accuracy (p = .03). There was no interaction effect between effort and reward on VAS-F scores or performance. Participants with MS reported higher VAS-F scores (p = .02). Across all conditions, participants with MS were slower (p < .001) and slower as a function of condition demand compared with HC (p < .001). This behavioural study did not find evidence that an effort-reward interaction is associated with cognitive fatigue. However, our findings support the role of effort in subjective cognitive fatigue and both effort and reward on task performance. In future studies, more salient reward manipulations could be necessary to identify effort-reward interactions on subjective cognitive fatigue.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:17

Enthalten in:

Journal of neuropsychology - 17(2023), 2 vom: 05. Juni, Seite 364-381

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Erani, Fareshte [VerfasserIn]
Patel, Darshan [VerfasserIn]
Deck, Benjamin L [VerfasserIn]
Hamilton, Roy H [VerfasserIn]
Schultheis, Maria T [VerfasserIn]
Medaglia, John D [VerfasserIn]

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Cognitive fatigue
Effort
Journal Article
Multiple sclerosis
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Reward

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Date Completed 09.06.2023

Date Revised 14.06.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/jnp.12295

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM34723741X