◊ motivational salience

• wiki
• ⌣ motivation ↑, using salience idea

cognitive process and a form of attention that motivates or propels an individual's behavior towards or away from a particular object, perceived event or outcome.

• regulates how intense behavior is
• addiction > this process is dysregulated

Amphetamine improves task saliency (motivation to perform a task) and increases arousal (wakefulness), in turn promoting goal-directed behavior.

• kind of seems a useful model for ~ meta cognition like "I have a gap here" breeds motivation
• ⁓ not just overall motivation matters for learning but also distribution of motivation over sub-goals