Neurophysiological evidence for evaluative feedback processing depending on goal relevance
Feedback signaling the success or failure of actions is readily exploited to implement goal-directed behavior. Two event-related brain potentials (ERPs) have been identified as reliable markers of evaluative feedback processing: the Feedback-Related Negativity (FRN) and the P3. Recent ERP studies ha...
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| description | Feedback signaling the success or failure of actions is readily exploited to implement goal-directed behavior. Two event-related brain potentials (ERPs) have been identified as reliable markers of evaluative feedback processing: the Feedback-Related Negativity (FRN) and the P3. Recent ERP studies have shown a substantial reduction of these components when the feedback’s goal relevance (in terms of goal informativeness) was decreased. However, it remains unclear whether this lowering of evaluative feedback processing at the FRN and P3 levels (i) reflects a common regulation process operating across them or (ii) indirectly and mostly depends on valence processing. To address these questions, 44 participants performed a time estimation task wherein the perceived goal relevance of the feedback following each decision was manipulated via instructions in different blocks. We recorded 64-channel EEG and collected subjective ratings of feedback valence and relevance, separately for goal-relevant and irrelevant conditions. ERP results showed a substantial reduction of the FRN and P3 components for irrelevant than relevant feedback, despite the balanced task relevance between them. Moreover, a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) showed that these two successive ERP effects had dissociable spatiotemporal properties. Crucially, a multivariate multiple regression analysis revealed that goal relevance per se, but not valence, was the unique significant predictor of the amplitude reduction of the FRN and P3 when the feedback was goal irrelevant. Our results suggest that although these ERP components exhibit non-overlapping spatiotemporal properties and performance monitoring effects, they can both be modulated by a common, valence-unspecific process related to goal relevance. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-af84fc0a9df34851929b899c7d1f963d2022-12-21T23:36:32ZengElsevierNeuroImage1095-95722020-07-01215116857Neurophysiological evidence for evaluative feedback processing depending on goal relevanceMario Carlo Severo0Katharina Paul1Wioleta Walentowska2Agnes Moors3Gilles Pourtois4Cognitive & Affective Psychophysiology Laboratory, Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium; Corresponding author. Department of Experimental Clinical & Health Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000, Ghent, Belgium.Cognitive & Affective Psychophysiology Laboratory, Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, BelgiumCognitive & Affective Psychophysiology Laboratory, Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium; Psychophysiology Laboratory, Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, PolandResearch Group of Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences, Center for Social and Cultural Psychology, KU Leuven, BelgiumCognitive & Affective Psychophysiology Laboratory, Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, BelgiumFeedback signaling the success or failure of actions is readily exploited to implement goal-directed behavior. Two event-related brain potentials (ERPs) have been identified as reliable markers of evaluative feedback processing: the Feedback-Related Negativity (FRN) and the P3. Recent ERP studies have shown a substantial reduction of these components when the feedback’s goal relevance (in terms of goal informativeness) was decreased. However, it remains unclear whether this lowering of evaluative feedback processing at the FRN and P3 levels (i) reflects a common regulation process operating across them or (ii) indirectly and mostly depends on valence processing. To address these questions, 44 participants performed a time estimation task wherein the perceived goal relevance of the feedback following each decision was manipulated via instructions in different blocks. We recorded 64-channel EEG and collected subjective ratings of feedback valence and relevance, separately for goal-relevant and irrelevant conditions. ERP results showed a substantial reduction of the FRN and P3 components for irrelevant than relevant feedback, despite the balanced task relevance between them. Moreover, a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) showed that these two successive ERP effects had dissociable spatiotemporal properties. Crucially, a multivariate multiple regression analysis revealed that goal relevance per se, but not valence, was the unique significant predictor of the amplitude reduction of the FRN and P3 when the feedback was goal irrelevant. Our results suggest that although these ERP components exhibit non-overlapping spatiotemporal properties and performance monitoring effects, they can both be modulated by a common, valence-unspecific process related to goal relevance.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811920303438ERPFRNP3PCAPerformance monitoringGoal relevance |
| spellingShingle | Mario Carlo Severo Katharina Paul Wioleta Walentowska Agnes Moors Gilles Pourtois Neurophysiological evidence for evaluative feedback processing depending on goal relevance NeuroImage ERP FRN P3 PCA Performance monitoring Goal relevance |
| title | Neurophysiological evidence for evaluative feedback processing depending on goal relevance |
| title_full | Neurophysiological evidence for evaluative feedback processing depending on goal relevance |
| title_fullStr | Neurophysiological evidence for evaluative feedback processing depending on goal relevance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Neurophysiological evidence for evaluative feedback processing depending on goal relevance |
| title_short | Neurophysiological evidence for evaluative feedback processing depending on goal relevance |
| title_sort | neurophysiological evidence for evaluative feedback processing depending on goal relevance |
| topic | ERP FRN P3 PCA Performance monitoring Goal relevance |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811920303438 |
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