Sleep Deprivation Biases the Neural Mechanisms Underlying Economic Preferences

Venkatraman, Vinod; Huettel, Scott A.; Chuah, Lisa Y.M.; Payne, John W.; Chee, Michael W.L.

doi:10.1523/jneurosci.4407-10.2011

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“…To provide further evidence for this conclusion, we conducted a control experiment (see supplemental material) that omitted feedback from a proportion of trials in order to simulate the effects of lapsing. Consistent with the finding that sleep deprivation effects on choices in an economic preference task are independent of sleep deprivation effects on sustained attention, 14 the results from the control experiment confirmed that attentional lapsing alone does not explain the pattern and magnitude of performance deficits in the reversal learning decision task.…”

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“…13 Though reduced activity in frontal lobe circuits involved in the executive control of attention may be involved in these effects, the specific mechanisms that produce sleep deprivation effects on risky decision making are not yet understood. 14 The key to understanding the apparent gap between the relatively small, inconsistent effects of sleep deprivation in laboratory tests of decision making and the apparently considerable, costly effects of sleep deprivation on decisions in many natural contexts may lie in differences in the types of decisions required in each environment. Decision tasks used in laboratory settings typically involve a series of independent decisions based on well-specified outcomes, whereas in the dynamic realworld environments where sleep deprivation is known to produce errors, decision making often requires that information be acquired over time and updated based on outcome feedback.…”

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“…13 The blunted feedback reactions observed in the reversal learning decision task used here may thus be causal to sleep deprivation-induced deficits observed on this task, as well as on the IGT and related measures in other studies of healthy subjects. 2,14,44 Further evidence for this interpretation may be found in studies that examined the processing of outcome feedback with event-related potentials (ERP). In one study using a flanker task, the amplitude of error-related negativity (ERN) was reduced after sleep deprivation, indicating reduced attention to error feedback information.…”

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745Sleep Deprivation and Decision Making-Whitney et al. INTRODUCTIONThe effect of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance is not uniform. 1 In laboratory studies, sleep deprivation has consistently been shown to substantially degrade vigilance and sustained attention, whereas its effects on demanding tests of complex cognition such as decision making appear to be inconsistent and relatively small. 2,3 Paradoxically, in the natural environment there are well-documented deficits in decision making due to sleep deprivation. 4,5 In emergency response, disaster management, military encounters, and other fast-paced situations with uncertain outcomes and imperfect information, good decision making is significantly hampered by sleep deprivation. 6-8Although the lapses of sustained attention that are characteristic of sleep deprivation contribute to errors and accidents, 3,8 attentional lapses are not the whole story of sleep deprivation effects on naturalistic decision making. The laboratory tasks often used to examine sleep deprivation effects on decisions typically do not include elements of updating information over Study Objectives: To better understand the sometimes catastrophic effects of sleep loss on naturalistic decision making, we investigated effects of sleep deprivation on decision making in a reversal learning paradigm requiring acquisition and updating of information based on outcome feedback. Design: Subjects were randomized to a sleep deprivation or control condition, with performance testing at baseline, after 2 nights of total sleep deprivation (or rested control), and following 2 nights of recovery sleep. Subjects performed a decision task involving initial learning of go and no go response sets followed by unannounced reversal of contingencies, requiring use of outcome feedback for decisions. A working memory scanning task and psychomotor vigilance test were also administered. Setting: Six consecutive days and nights in a controlled laboratory environment with continuous behavioral monitoring. Subjects: Twenty-six subjects (22-40 y of age; 10 women). Interventions: Thirteen subjects were randomized to a 62-h total sleep deprivation condition; the others were controls. Results: Unlike controls, sleep deprived subjects had difficulty with initial learning of go and no go stimuli sets and had profound impairment adapting to reversal. Skin conductance responses to outcome feedback were diminished, indicating blunted affective reactions to feedback accompanying sleep deprivation. Working memory scanning performance was not significantly affected by sleep deprivation. And although sleep deprived subjects showed expected attentional lapses, these could not account for impairments in reversal learning decision making. Conclusions: Sleep deprivation is particularly problematic for decision making involving uncertainty and unexpected change. Blunted reactions to feedback while sleep deprived underlie failures to adapt to uncertainty and changing contingencies. Thus, an error may register, but with diminishe...

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“…Moreover, decreases in D2/D3 receptor availability may account for impairments in performance, reward learning, and decision making after SD (Volkow et al 2012). Indeed, insufficient sleep is associated with changes in reward-related decision making: people take greater risks (Harrison and Horne 2000) and are less concerned with the negative consequences of their risky behaviors (Chee and Chuah 2008;Venkatraman et al 2007Venkatraman et al , 2011.…”

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Sleep and Emotional Functions

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Schwartz

2013

Sleep, Neuronal Plasticity and Brain Function

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In this chapter, we review studies investigating the role of sleep in emotional functions. In particular, evidence has recently accumulated to show that brain regions involved in the processing of emotional and reward-related information are activated during sleep. We suggest that such activation of emotional and reward systems during sleep underlies the reprocessing and consolidation of memories with a high affective and motivational relevance for the organism. We also propose that these mechanisms occurring during sleep promote adapted cognitive and emotional responses in the waking state, including overnight performance improvement, creativity, and sexual functions. Activation across emotional-limbic circuits during sleep also appears to promote emotional maturation and the emergence of consciousness in the developing brain.

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“…Context can have a profound effect on the preferences that people show: framing (or presentation of the choice), the presence of irrelevant alternatives and previous experiences all influence how people make decisions, even when rational choice theory predicts it should not (Kahneman & Tversky 2000). Contextual factors that are external to the choice at hand can have similar effects: levels of sleep deprivation (Reynolds & Schiffbauer 2004;Glass et al 2011;Venkatraman et al 2011), mood or emotional state (Raghunathan & Pham 1999;Lerner & Keltner 2001;Fessler et al 2004) and stress level (Bault et al 2008;Kassam et al 2009;Porcelli & Delgado 2009) can all shift strategies. Finally, social context, the presence or absence of particular social partners, can affect preferences in several situations, including decisions about time and risk (Wilson & Daly 2004;Bault et al 2008;Ermer et al 2008;Hill & Buss 2010).…”

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Decision making across social contexts: competition increases preferences for risk in chimpanzees and bonobos

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Hare

2012

Animal Behaviour

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Context can have a powerful influence on decision-making strategies in humans. In particular, people sometimes shift their economic preferences depending on the broader social context, such as the presence of potential competitors or mating partners. Despite the important role of competition in primate conspecific interactions, as well as evidence that competitive social contexts impact primates' social cognitive skills, there has been little study of how social context influences the strategies that nonhumans show when making decisions about the value of resources. Here we investigate the impact of social context on preferences for risk (variability in payoffs) in our two closest phylogenetic relatives, chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, and bonobos, Pan paniscus. In a first study, we examine the impact of competition on patterns of risky choice. In a second study, we examine whether a positive play context affects risky choices. We find that (1) apes are more likely to choose the risky option when making decisions in a competitive context; and (2) the play context did not influence their risk preferences. Overall these results suggest that some types of social contexts can shift patterns of decision making in nonhuman apes, much like in humans. Comparative studies of chimpanzees and bonobos can therefore help illuminate the evolutionary processes shaping human economic behaviour. . Understanding the role of social context in shaping decision-making strategies is particularly important for biologists and psychologists who are interested in understanding behaviour in the real world, as gregarious species like primates must constantly make value-based decisions in the company of others. While cooperation in nonhumans has received increasing attention, little comparative research has examined the role of social context in shaping decisions when an individual's payoffs do not directly depend on their partner's behaviour. In the current study we therefore examine the impact of social context on risk preferences in chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, and bonobos, Pan paniscus, our closest phylogenetic relatives.Studies of social context and decision making in humans have generally been motivated by evolutionary hypotheses concerning how the presence or absence of certain social partners might alter how decision makers value resources. In one study, Wilson & Daly (2004) found that men who viewed images of attractive women had steeper temporal discounting rates, devaluing the future much more heavily than men who viewed unattractive women or cars. That is, looking at attractive women made men more impulsive or present oriented, possibly because the attractive women cued men into the possibility that current possession of goods could increase mating opportunities. Social context also modulates people's willingness to take economic risks (or accept variability in payoffs). For example, men became more likely to choose risky options when their choices were watched by an observer of equal status, compared to when relative status was ...

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Sleep Deprivation Biases the Neural Mechanisms Underlying Economic Preferences

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Feedback Blunting: Total Sleep Deprivation Impairs Decision Making that Requires Updating Based on Feedback

Feedback Blunting: Total Sleep Deprivation Impairs Decision Making that Requires Updating Based on Feedback

Sleep and Emotional Functions

Decision making across social contexts: competition increases preferences for risk in chimpanzees and bonobos

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