It is less than you expected: the feedback-related negativity reflects violations of reward magnitude expectations

Neuropsychologia
Christian BellebaumIrene Daum

Abstract

The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is involved in performance monitoring and in learning from performance feedback. Recent research suggests that the feedback-related negativity (FRN), an event-related potentials (ERP) component reflecting neural activity in the ACC, codes the size of a negative prediction error when reward probabilities are varied. There is as yet no clear evidence that the FRN is also sensitive to violations of reward magnitude expectations. In the present study, 20 healthy young subjects engaged in a learning task in which a coin had to be found on each trial. The value of the coin (the potential reward magnitude) was varied from trial to trial and amounted to 5 cent, 20 cent or 50 cent. Analysis of ERPs revealed that FRN amplitude differences between reward and non-reward were significantly modulated by (potential) reward magnitude. This effect was driven by the neural response to non-reward: the larger the potential reward, the larger was the FRN amplitude in response to non-reward. In contrast, the P300 was larger for positive outcomes and showed an effect of (potential) reward magnitude independent of valence. Together with evidence from previous studies, these results show that the FRN codes negative p...Continue Reading

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