Momentary Induction of Inhibitory Control and Its Effects on Uncertainty

Linkovski, Omer; Rodriguez, Carolyn I.; Wheaton, Michael G.; Henik, Avishai; Anholt, Gideon E.

doi:10.5334/joc.133

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“…There are discrepancies between subjective reports and objective tasks assessing resolution of uncertainty or decision-making under uncertainty. Healthy adults' objective resolution of uncertainty may differ under certain conditions, but their subjective estimate of uncertainty remains constant in these different conditions (Linkovski, Rodriguez, Wheaton, Henik, & Anholt, 2021). In other studies, the association between subjective intolerance of uncertainty (IU) and subjective anxiety severity was higher than the association between IU and objective decision-making under uncertainty (Luhmann, Ishida, & Hajcak, 2011).…”

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Conviction Narrative Theory: A theory of choice under radical uncertainty

Johnson

Bilovich²,

Tuckett

2022

Behav Brain Sci

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Conviction Narrative Theory (CNT) is a theory of choice under radical uncertainty—situations where outcomes cannot be enumerated and probabilities cannot be assigned. Whereas most theories of choice assume that people rely on (potentially biased) probabilistic judgments, such theories cannot account for adaptive decision-making when probabilities cannot be assigned. CNT proposes that people use narratives—structured representations of causal, temporal, analogical, and valence relationships—rather than probabilities, as the currency of thought that unifies our sense-making and decision-making faculties. According to CNT, narratives arise from the interplay between individual cognition and the social environment, with reasoners adopting a narrative that feels ‘right’ to explain the available data; using that narrative to imagine plausible futures; and affectively evaluating those imagined futures to make a choice. Evidence from many areas of the cognitive, behavioral, and social sciences supports this basic model, including lab experiments, interview studies, and econometric analyses. We propose 12 principles to explain how the mental representations (narratives) interact with four inter-related processes (explanation, simulation, affective evaluation, communication), examining the theoretical and empirical basis for each. We conclude by discussing how CNT can provide a common vocabulary for researchers studying everyday choices across areas of the decision sciences.

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Conviction Narrative Theory: A theory of choice under radical uncertainty

Johnson

Bilovich²,

Tuckett

2022

Behav Brain Sci

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“…The pre-event cortical activity in the alpha and lower beta band can be interpreted such that increased ongoing low beta activity reflects a memory forming state, which is likely to be moderated by modality-independent alpha specific attentional or inhibitory processes [ 57 ]. The inhibitory control activity was also reported to improve the resolution of uncertainty [ 70 ]. Hence, relatively high alpha power for less familiar stimuli might induce more inhibitory control to resolve uncertainty.…”

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Cardiac–Brain Dynamics Depend on Context Familiarity and Their Interaction Predicts Experience of Emotional Arousal

2022

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Our brain continuously interacts with the body as we engage with the world. Although we are mostly unaware of internal bodily processes, such as our heartbeats, they may be influenced by and in turn influence our perception and emotional feelings. Although there is a recent focus on understanding cardiac interoceptive activity and interaction with brain activity during emotion processing, the investigation of cardiac–brain interactions with more ecologically valid naturalistic emotional stimuli is still very limited. We also do not understand how an essential aspect of emotions, such as context familiarity, influences affective feelings and is linked to statistical interaction between cardiac and brain activity. Hence, to answer these questions, we designed an exploratory study by recording ECG and EEG signals for the emotional events while participants were watching emotional movie clips. Participants also rated their familiarity with the stimulus on the familiarity scale. Linear mixed effect modelling was performed in which the ECG power and familiarity were considered as predictors of EEG power. We focused on three brain regions, including prefrontal (PF), frontocentral (FC) and parietooccipital (PO). The analyses showed that the interaction between the power of cardiac activity in the mid-frequency range and the power in specific EEG bands is dependent on familiarity, such that the interaction is stronger with high familiarity. In addition, the results indicate that arousal is predicted by cardiac–brain interaction, which also depends on familiarity. The results support emotional theories that emphasize context dependency and interoception. Multimodal studies with more realistic stimuli would further enable us to understand and predict different aspects of emotional experience.

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“…The pre-event cortical activity in the alpha and lower beta band can be interpreted such that increased ongoing low beta activity reflects a memory forming state, which is likely to be moderated by modality-independent alpha specific attentional or inhibitory processes [55]. The inhibitory control activity has also been reported to improve the resolution of uncertainty [68]. Hence, relatively high alpha power for less familiar stimuli might induce more inhibitory control to resolve uncertainty.…”

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confidence: 99%

Cardiac-Brain Dynamics Depend on Context Familiarity and Their Interaction Predicts Experience of Emotional Arousal

Mishra¹,

Srinivasan²,

Tiwary³

2022

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Our brain continuously interacts with the body as we engage with the world. Although we are mostly unaware of internal bodily processes, such as our heartbeats, they may be influenced by and in turn influence our perception and emotional feelings. While there is a recent focus on understanding cardiac interoceptive activity and interaction with brain activity during emotion processing, the investigation of cardiac-brain interactions with more ecologically valid naturalistic emotional stimuli is still very limited. We also do not understand how an essential aspect of emotions like context familiarity influences affective feelings and is linked to cardiac-brain interactions. Hence to answer these questions, we designed an exploratory study by recording ECG and EEG signals for the emotional events while participants were watching emotional movie clips. Participants also rated their familiarity with the stimulus on the familiarity scale. Linear mixed effect modelling was performed in which the ECG power and familiarity were considered as predictors of EEG power. We focused on three brain regions, including prefrontal (PF), frontocentral (FC) and parietooccipital (PO). The analyses showed that cardiac-brain interaction is dependent on familiarity such that the interaction is stronger with high familiarity. In addition, the results indicate that arousal is predicted by cardiac-brain interaction, which also depends on familiarity. The results support emotional theories that emphasize context dependency and interoception. Multimodal studies with more realistic stimuli would further enable us to understand and predict different aspects of emotional experience.

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Momentary Induction of Inhibitory Control and Its Effects on Uncertainty

Cited by 14 publications

References 59 publications

Conviction Narrative Theory: A theory of choice under radical uncertainty

Conviction Narrative Theory: A theory of choice under radical uncertainty

Cardiac–Brain Dynamics Depend on Context Familiarity and Their Interaction Predicts Experience of Emotional Arousal

Cardiac-Brain Dynamics Depend on Context Familiarity and Their Interaction Predicts Experience of Emotional Arousal

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