Reward, salience, and agency in event-related potentials for appetitive and aversive contexts

Stewardson, Harry J. and Sambrook, Thomas D. (2021) Reward, salience, and agency in event-related potentials for appetitive and aversive contexts. Cerebral Cortex, 31 (11). 5006–5014. ISSN 1047-3211

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Abstract

Cognitive architectures tasked with swiftly and adaptively processing biologically important events are likely to classify these on two central axes: motivational salience, that is, those events’ importance and unexpectedness, and motivational value, the utility they hold, relative to that expected. Because of its temporal precision, electroencephalography provides an opportunity to resolve processes associated with these two axes. A focus of attention for the last two decades has been the feedback-related negativity (FRN), a frontocentral component occurring 240–340 ms after valenced events that are not fully predicted. Both motivational salience and value are present in such events and competing claims have been made for which of these is encoded by the FRN. The present study suggests that motivational value, in the form of a reward prediction error, is the primary determinant of the FRN in active contexts, while in both passive and active contexts, a weaker and earlier overlapping motivational salience component may be present.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: erp,frn,rewp,motivational salience,reward prediction error,cognitive neuroscience,cellular and molecular neuroscience ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2800/2805
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology
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Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 29 May 2021 00:13
Last Modified: 22 Dec 2022 01:35
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/80169
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab137

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