Removal of reinforcement improves instrumental performance in humans by decreasing a general action bias rather than unmasking learnt associations

• Hannah Kurtenbach ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: hannah.kurtenbach@hhu.de

  Affiliation Biological Psychology of Decision Making, Institute of Experimental Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9317-5840

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• Eduard Ort,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biological Psychology of Decision Making, Institute of Experimental Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5546-3561

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• Monja Isabel Froböse,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biological Psychology of Decision Making, Institute of Experimental Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5657-8798

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• Gerhard Jocham

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biological Psychology of Decision Making, Institute of Experimental Psychology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

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