The time course of novelty processing in sensation seeking: An ERP study

Zheng, Ya; Xu, Jing; Jin, Yi; Sheng, Wenbin; Ma, Ying; Zhang, Xiaoyu; Shen, Huijuan

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2010.02.003

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“…Consistent with the current study, a positive correlation between sensation seeking and P3 amplitude has been reported in a novelty detection paradigm (Zheng et al, 2010). We extend previous findings by revealing that the effect of sensation seeking interacts with disinhibition, which should not be surprising regarding the shared biological connections of the two dimensions (McDaniel & Mahan, 2008).…”

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Impulsive personality dimensions are associated with altered behavioral performance and neural responses in the monetary incentive delay task

Jiang

Kiser

et al. 2017

Neuropsychologia

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Individual differences in dimensions of impulsivity personality including disinhibition and sensation seeking modulate approach responses to reinforcing stimuli, such as drugs and money. The current study examined the effects of monetary incentive on both behavioral performance and electrophysiological activity among individuals varying in disinhibition and sensation seeking. The monetary incentive delay (MID) task was completed under electroencephalogram (EEG) recording. Behavioral data showed that higher disinhibition and sensation-seeking were associated with lower performance accuracy. Event-related potential (ERP) data showed that high reinforcement cues elicited a larger late positive component (LPC) than other conditions among high disinhibition participants, indicating its strong emotional influence. Additionally, in the neutral incentive condition, the feedback-related negativity (FRN) elicited by correct outcomes was larger than that elicited by incorrect outcomes in the high disinhibition group, only. This novel finding indicates that high disinhibition participants were less likely to expect correct outcomes compared to incorrect outcomes in the neutral incentive condition. Finally, the P3 component elicited by outcome presentation showed an interaction between two impulsivity dimensions; when disinhibition level was low, the P3 was larger among high than low sensation seeking participants.

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“…Heightened P3 amplitudes indicate stronger motivational impact of an outcome (Polezzi, Sartori, Rumiati, Vidotto, & Daum, 2010). Consistent with this interpretation, the P3 amplitude increased in individuals who attributed more meaning to outcomes (De Bruijn, Mars, & Hulstijn, 2004) or showed stronger desire for rewards (Zheng et al, 2010). …”

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Impulsive personality dimensions are associated with altered behavioral performance and neural responses in the monetary incentive delay task

Jiang

Kiser

et al. 2017

Neuropsychologia

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“…Likewise, during a risky decision‐making task, whereas HSSs are less sensitive to punishments and tend to exhibit more risky behaviors after prior punishments, LSSs are more sensitive in evaluating different punishment intensities in brain areas including the left superior frontal gyrus, right nucleus accumbens, and left precuneus (Kruschwitz et al., ). Moreover, the attenuated ERN in high versus low sensation seekers is consistent with our previous findings that HSSs compared with LSSs exhibit a decreased N2 component to novel stimuli (Zheng et al., ), as well as emotional pictures (Zheng et al., ). Overall, these findings are consistent with the view that HSSs might possess a weaker avoidance‐withdrawal system than do LSSs (Depue & Collins, ; Lang, Shin, & Lee, ), whereby individuals with high sensation seeking present a vigilant response to a lesser extent in the face of the commission of an error.…”

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Sensation seeking and error processing

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Sheng

et al. 2014

Psychophysiology

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Sensation seeking is defined by a strong need for varied, novel, complex, and intense stimulation, and a willingness to take risks for such experience. Several theories propose that the insensitivity to negative consequences incurred by risks is one of the hallmarks of sensation-seeking behaviors. In this study, we investigated the time course of error processing in sensation seeking by recording event-related potentials (ERPs) while high and low sensation seekers performed an Eriksen flanker task. Whereas there were no group differences in ERPs to correct trials, sensation seeking was associated with a blunted error-related negativity (ERN), which was female-specific. Further, different subdimensions of sensation seeking were related to ERN amplitude differently. These findings indicate that the relationship between sensation seeking and error processing is sex-specific.

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“…Interestingly, low compared to high sensation seekers exhibited increased N2 activation to novel stimuli at frontal sites in an ERP study reported by Zheng et al (2010). Also, Pd3 (subtraction wave reflecting novelty processing) responses were enhanced and less habituated in high sensation seekers.…”

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Sensation seeking predicts brain responses in the old–new task: Converging multimodal neuroimaging evidence

Lawson

Liu

Joseph

et al. 2012

International Journal of Psychophysiology

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Novel images and message content enhance visual attention and memory for high sensation seekers, but the neural mechanisms associated with this effect are unclear. To investigate the individual differences in brain responses to new and old (studied) visual stimuli, we utilized Event-related Potentials (ERP) and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) measures to examine brain reactivity among high and low sensation seekers during a classic old-new memory recognition task. Twenty low and 20 high sensation seekers completed separate, but parallel, ERP and fMRI sessions. For each session, participants initially studied drawings of common images, and then performed an old-new recognition task during scanning. High sensation seekers showed greater ERP responses to new objects at the frontal N2 ERP component, compared to low sensation seekers. The ERP Novelty-N2 responses were correlated with fMRI responses in the orbitofrontal gyrus. Sensation seeking status also modulated the FN400 ERP component indexing familiarity and conceptual learning, along with fMRI responses in the caudate nucleus, which correlated with FN400 activity. No group differences were found in the late ERP positive components indexing classic old-new amplitude effects. Our combined ERP & fMRI results suggest that sensation-seeking personality affects the early brain responses to visual processing, but not the later stage of memory recognition.

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The time course of novelty processing in sensation seeking: An ERP study

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Impulsive personality dimensions are associated with altered behavioral performance and neural responses in the monetary incentive delay task

Impulsive personality dimensions are associated with altered behavioral performance and neural responses in the monetary incentive delay task

Sensation seeking and error processing

Sensation seeking predicts brain responses in the old–new task: Converging multimodal neuroimaging evidence

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