When rewards backfire: Collapsing under pressure in motor cortex.

Neuron

Département de Neurosciences, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada. Electronic address:

Published: October 2024

People often underperform their abilities in high-value situations, a mysterious phenomenon known as "choking under pressure." In this issue of Neuron, Smoulder et al. report that target-selective signals in the motor cortex of non-human primates collapse in the face of high-value opportunities.

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