Responsibility modulates neural mechanisms of outcome processing: An ERP study

Li, Peng; Han, Chunhui; Lei, Yi; Holroyd, Clay B.; Li, Hong

doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01182.x

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“…nonrandom) [14], and appears only if the response is produced before, rather than after, the prediction is made [13]. Further, the sense of personal responsibility over choice behavior seems to be a critical factor underlying this process [24].…”

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Reward positivity elicited by predictive cues

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A recent theory holds that a component of the human event-related brain potential called the reward positivity reflects a reward prediction error signal. We investigated this idea in gambling-like task in which, on each trial, a visual stimulus predicted a subsequent rewarding or nonrewarding outcome with 80% probability. Consistent with earlier results, we found that the reward positivity was larger to unexpected than to expected outcomes. In addition, we found that the predictive cues also elicited a reward positivity, as proposed by the theory. These results indicate that the reward positivity reflects the initial assessment of whether a trial will end in success or failure and the reappraisal of that information once the outcome actually occurs.

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“…Furthermore, converging neuroscientific evidence points toward highly interconnected networks of brain regions underlying cognitive-emotional behaviors (Pessoa, 2009). Hence, it is reasonable to assume a tight and reciprocal relation between agency and affective processes: On the one hand, self-agency may enhance the value of action outcomes (Bednark, Reynolds, Stafford, Redgrave, & Franz, 2013;Li, Han, Lei, Holroyd, & Li, 2011) and, vice versa, the reward value of an outcome may modulate sense of agency over that outcome.…”

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Doing good or bad: How interactions between action and emotion expectations shape the sense of agency

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Spengler

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Social Neuroscience

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The emotional consequences of our own and others' actions can influence our agentive self-awareness in social contexts. Positive outcomes are usually linked to the self and used for self-enhancement, whereas negative outcomes are more often attributed to others. In most situations, these causal attribution tendencies seem to be immediately present instead of involving reflective interpretations of the action experience. To address the question at which level of the cognitive hierarchy emotions and action perception interact, we adopted a social reward anticipation paradigm. Here, participants or their interaction partner received positive or negative action outcomes and performed speeded attribution choices regarding causation of the action outcome. Event-Related Potential (ERP) results showed that the emotional value of an outcome already influenced the classical N1 self-attenuation effect, with reduced embodied agentive self-awareness for negative outcomes at initial sensorimotor stages. At the level of the N300, the degree of updating and affective evaluation associated with the respective attributive decision was reflected and particularly associated to attribution tendencies for positive events. Our results show an early interaction between emotion and agency processes, and suggest that self-serving cognition can be grounded in embodied knowledge from low-level sensorimotor mechanisms.

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“…Crucially, when the participants’ actions were unrelated to the occurrence of the sensory event, we observed an enhancement in the fCRP response in PD patients compared to age-matched controls. As highlighted in the Introduction, previous studies have demonstrated that the fCRP response is enhanced by the perceived responsibility over Li et al (2011) and coupling of an intentional action with a sensory event (Bednark et al, 2013; Bednark and Franz, 2014). Additionally, it has been previously demonstrated that PD patients on regular dopamine treatment perceive actions and sensory events as occurring closer in time than when OFF dopamine treatment (Moore et al, 2010).…”

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“…Related to action, previous work has shown that the fCRP response to salient outcomes is enhanced when participants have a sense of control over the salient outcome (Li et al, 2011; Bednark et al, 2013; Bednark and Franz, 2014). Conversely, the novelty P3 is thought to reflect the engagement of evaluative processes necessary for learning when a novel stimulus is encountered (Friedman et al, 2001; Jongsma et al, 2006; Sailer et al, 2010).…”

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Action Experience and Action Discovery in Medicated Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease

Bednark

Reynolds

Stafford

et al. 2016

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that markedly affects voluntary action. While regular dopamine treatment can help restore motor function, dopamine also influences cognitive portions of the action system. Previous studies have demonstrated that dopamine medication boosts action-effect associations, which are crucial for the discovery of new voluntary actions. In the present study, we investigated whether neural processes involved in the discovery of new actions are altered in PD participants on regular dopamine treatment, compared to healthy age-matched controls. We recorded brain electroencephalography (EEG) activity while PD patients and age-matched controls performed action discovery (AD) and action control tasks. We found that the novelty P3, a component normally present when there is uncertainty about the occurrence of the sensory effect, was enhanced in PD patients. However, AD was maintained in PD patients, and the novelty P3 demonstrated normal learning-related reductions. Crucially, we found that in PD patients the causal association between an action and its resulting sensory outcome did not modulate the amplitude of the feedback correct-related positivity (fCRP), an EEG component sensitive to the association between an action and its resulting effect. Collectively, these preliminary results suggest that the formation of long-term action-outcome representations may be maintained in PD patients on regular dopamine treatment, but the initial experience of action-effect association may be affected.

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Responsibility modulates neural mechanisms of outcome processing: An ERP study

Cited by 67 publications

References 12 publications

Reward positivity elicited by predictive cues

Reward positivity elicited by predictive cues

Doing good or bad: How interactions between action and emotion expectations shape the sense of agency

Action Experience and Action Discovery in Medicated Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease

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