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Effect of motivation on perceptual decision-making behavior. Both positive and negative motivation significantly affected response bias (A) with participants more likely to respond that the target stimulus was present in the motivated condition compared to the neutral condition. There was no effect of motivation on either detection sensitivity (B) or response time (C). *P < 0.05.
