Error-related ERP components and individual differences in punishment and reward sensitivity

Boksem, Maarten A. S.; Tops, Mattie; Wester, Anne E.; Meijman, Theo F.; Lorist, Monicque M.

doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2006.05.004

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“…The frontal midline region has also been strongly associated with response conflict monitoring (Botvinick, 2007;Botvinick, Cohen, & Carter, 2004), and the frontal midline error related negativity (ERN) has been linked to a personality factor of behavioural inhibition (Boksem, Tops, Wester, Meijman, & Lorist, 2006). At first sight, the lack of conflict-specific frontal midline power goes against this view.…”

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Frontal theta power linked to neuroticism and avoidance

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McNaughton

2011

Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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Approach-avoidance conflict is thought to generate negative affective bias, mediated by theta rhythms. This process is distinct from, and adds to, the effects of simple aversive input. We assessed this distinction by holding gain constant and increasing loss value so that conflict and simple aversion peaked in the conflict (gain equals loss) and loss (net loss) conditions, respectively. Right frontal areas showed increases in both conflict-and loss-induced theta power. However, loss, but not conflict, power was correlated with avoidance and neuroticism, showing a Gender x Hemisphere interaction. We concluded that multiple aversive processes converge in lateral frontal networks and that individual differences in theta response in these networks may reflect differences in behavioural and emotional reactivity to aversive events.

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Frontal theta power linked to neuroticism and avoidance

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McNaughton

2011

Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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“…For instance, Boksem et al (2006) reported that individuals who score high on a measure of punishment sensitivity have larger ERN amplitudes than individuals who score low on such a measure. Pailing and Segalowitz (2004) demonstrated that individuals who score high on conscientiousness have smaller changes in ERN amplitudes with manipulations of motivation compared to individuals who score low on conscientiousness.…”

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“…Interestingly, a number of studies demonstrated the influence of emotional/motivational factors on the ERN (e.g., Boksem et al, 2006;Luu et al, 2000;Pailing and Segalowitz, 2004;Ullsperger and Von Cramon, 2004). The general finding is that the ERN increases when monetary incentives are offered for accuracy (Gehring et al, 1993;Hajcak et al, 2005;Pailing and Segalowitz, 2004).…”

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Motivation and semantic context affect brain error-monitoring activity: An event-related brain potentials study

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During speech production, we continuously monitor what we say. In situations in which speech errors potentially have more severe consequences, e.g. during a public presentation, our verbal selfmonitoring system may pay special attention to prevent errors than in situations in which speech errors are more acceptable, such as a casual conversation. In an event-related potential study, we investigated whether or not motivation affected participants' performance using a picture naming task in a semantic blocking paradigm. Semantic context of to-be-named pictures was manipulated; blocks were semantically related (e.g., cat, dog, horse, etc.) or semantically unrelated (e.g., cat, table, flute, etc.). Motivation was manipulated independently by monetary reward. The motivation manipulation did not affect error rate during picture naming. However, the highmotivation condition yielded increased amplitude and latency values of the error-related negativity (ERN) compared to the low-motivation condition, presumably indicating higher monitoring activity. Furthermore, participants showed semantic interference effects in reaction times and error rates. The ERN amplitude was also larger during semantically related than unrelated blocks, presumably indicating that semantic relatedness induces more conflict between possible verbal responses.

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“…Items are answered on a four-point Likert scale, indicating to what extent the subject considers the statement in the given item to be true for him or herself. In this study, the BIS scale was used because it was previously found to be correlated to feedback-related and error-related electrophysiological activity (Balconi et al 2010, Boksem et al, 2006, De Pascalis et al, 2010. A median-split procedure was used to classify participants as high BIS or low BIS.…”

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“…An additional point is that self-report measures of punishment sensitivity (Behavioral Inhibition System [BIS]; Carver and White, 1994) have been found to be related to FRN amplitude. Higher punishment sensitivity scores were associated with larger amplitude FRN (Amodio et al, 2008;De Pascalis, Varriale, 2010), and its response related counterpart, the error related negativity (ERN; Boksem et al, 2008, Boksem et al, 2006. The BIS was originally proposed by Gray as a neurophysiological system underlying aversive motivation, consisting of the septo-hippocampal system and its cortical projections (Gray, 1982;Gray and McNaughton, 2000).…”

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Baseline EEG theta/beta ratio and punishment sensitivity as biomarkers for feedback-related negativity (FRN) and risk-taking

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Rossi²,

Schutter³

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Clinical Neurophysiology

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Objective. Feedback-related negativity (FRN) is associated with reinforcement learning and punishment sensitivity. Furthermore, reinforcement learning proficiency can be predicted from pre-task baseline EEG theta/beta ratio. In this study it was examined whether there was a relation between baseline theta/beta ratio in rest and FRN amplitude during a gambling task, and if such a correlation would be related to theta activity or to beta activity.Methods. Baseline EEG and a self-report measure of punishment sensitivity (BIS) were obtained from 52 healthy volunteers. FRN was recorded during a gambling task.Results. FRN amplitude was negatively correlated with theta/beta ratio in high BIS individuals. Furthermore, source localization indicated that baseline theta activity generated in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) accounted for this correlation. For low BIS individuals no correlation was found.Conclusion. An association between high baseline theta/beta ratio with low amplitude FRN and high risk-taking can be found in individuals who are sufficiently sensitive to punishments. This relationship is carried mostly by baseline theta activity, but not by beta activity.Significance: This link between baseline brain activity, self-report measures and feedback processing may contribute to further understanding the biological basis of conditions that are accompanied by abnormal theta/beta ratio and reward processing, such as attention deficit hyper activity disorder (ADHD).Key words: Feedback-Related Negativity, Baseline EEG, theta/beta ratio, Behavioral Inhibition System, risk taking, source localization 3 Highlights:Baseline EEG theta/beta ratio is associated with decreased feedback-related negativity and increased risk-taking during a gambling task.This association is only present in individuals with sufficiently high punishment sensitivity (BIS).Theta activity that is associated with decreased feedback-related negativity and increased risk-taking during a gambling task originates from the anterior cingulate cortex.4

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Error-related ERP components and individual differences in punishment and reward sensitivity

Cited by 209 publications

References 55 publications

Frontal theta power linked to neuroticism and avoidance

Frontal theta power linked to neuroticism and avoidance

Motivation and semantic context affect brain error-monitoring activity: An event-related brain potentials study

Baseline EEG theta/beta ratio and punishment sensitivity as biomarkers for feedback-related negativity (FRN) and risk-taking

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