Integration of reward with cost anticipation during performance monitoring revealed by ERPs and EEG spectral perturbations

NeuroImage
Davide GhezaGilles Pourtois

Abstract

Effort expenditure has an aversive connotation and it can lower hedonic feelings. In this study, we explored the electrophysiological correlates of the complex interplay of reward processing with cost anticipation. To this aim, healthy adult participants performed a gambling task where the outcome (monetary reward vs. no-reward) and its expectancy were manipulated on a trial by trial basis while 64-channel EEG was recorded. Crucially, on some trials, the no-reward outcome could be transformed to a rewarding one, pending effort expenditure by means of an orthogonal dot clicking task, enabling us to compare at the electrophysiological level reward processing when cost was anticipated or not. We extracted and compared different markers of reward processing at the feedback level using both classical ERPs and EEG spectral perturbations in specific bands (theta, delta and beta-gamma). At the behavioral level, participants reported enhanced pleasure and relief when the outcome was rewarding but effort expenditure could be avoided, relative to a control condition where the outcome was rewarding but no extra effort was anticipated. In this condition, EEG results showed a larger Reward Positivity ERP component and increased power in the ...Continue Reading

Citations

Jul 31, 2020·Journal of Neurophysiology·Dimitrios J Palidis, Paul L Gribble
Jan 5, 2019·Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience·Eliana VassenaWilliam H Alexander
Feb 12, 2020·Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience·Katharina PaulEddie Harmon-Jones
Sep 10, 2021·International Journal of Psychophysiology : Official Journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology·Liping ZhangChangquan Long

❮ Previous
Next ❯

Related Concepts

Related Feeds

Addiction

This feed focuses mechanisms underlying addiction and addictive behaviour including heroin and opium dependence, alcohol intoxication, gambling, and tobacco addiction.

Related Papers

International Journal of Psychophysiology : Official Journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology
Wioleta WalentowskaGilles Pourtois
Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience
Gonçalo PadrãoAntoni Rodríguez-Fornells
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS
Michael J LarsonWilliam M Perlstein
© 2022 Meta ULC. All rights reserved