ERP Correlates of Feedback and Reward Processing in the Presence and Absence of Response Choice Export

@article{citeulike:172511, abstract = {The feedback negativity is a component of the event-related brain potential that is elicited by feedback stimuli associated with unfavorable outcomes. The present research investigated whether this component reflects an evaluation of the valence of experienced outcomes or a process of learning about actions that led to those outcomes. The latter hypothesis predicts that the feedback negativity should be observed only when negative outcomes are experienced in relation to executed actions. Contrary to this prediction, feedback negativities were observed in simple monetary gambling tasks in which participants made no active choices (experiment 1) and no overt actions (experiment 2). However, the amplitude of the component was reduced in these tasks relative to a gambling task in which the outcomes appeared to be contingent upon participants' response choices. This reduction was correlated with changes in participants' subjective ratings of involvement in the tasks, suggesting that the evaluative process indexed by the feedback negativity is sensitive to the motivational significance of ongoing events.}, author = {Yeung, Nick and Holroyd, Clay B. and Cohen, Jonathan D.}, citeulike-article-id = {172511}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhh153}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/15/5/535}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/oup/cercor/2005/00000015/00000005/art00535}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15319308}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=15319308}, doi = {10.1093/cercor/bhh153}, issn = {1047-3211}, journal = {Cerebral Cortex}, keywords = {feedback-negativity, feeling-of-control, gambling, medial-frontal-negativity}, month = {May}, number = {5}, pages = {535--544}, posted-at = {2009-02-04 01:36:42}, priority = {5}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, title = {ERP Correlates of Feedback and Reward Processing in the Presence and Absence of Response Choice}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhh153}, volume = {15}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:172511 L3 - citeulike-article-id:172511 N2 - The feedback negativity is a component of the event-related brain potential that is elicited by feedback stimuli associated with unfavorable outcomes. The present research investigated whether this component reflects an evaluation of the valence of experienced outcomes or a process of learning about actions that led to those outcomes. The latter hypothesis predicts that the feedback negativity should be observed only when negative outcomes are experienced in relation to executed actions. Contrary to this prediction, feedback negativities were observed in simple monetary gambling tasks in which participants made no active choices (experiment 1) and no overt actions (experiment 2). However, the amplitude of the component was reduced in these tasks relative to a gambling task in which the outcomes appeared to be contingent upon participants' response choices. This reduction was correlated with changes in participants' subjective ratings of involvement in the tasks, suggesting that the evaluative process indexed by the feedback negativity is sensitive to the motivational significance of ongoing events. IS - 5 JF - Cerebral Cortex SN - 1047-3211 EP - 544 TI - ERP Correlates of Feedback and Reward Processing in the Presence and Absence of Response Choice PB - Oxford University Press VL - 15 SP - 535 KW - feedback-negativity KW - feeling-of-control KW - gambling KW - medial-frontal-negativity AU - Yeung, Nick AU - Holroyd, Clay AU - Cohen, Jonathan PY - 2005/05// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhh153 ER -