It?s worse than you thought: the feedback negativity and responses to delayed rewards

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Event Abstract Back to Event It’s worse than you thought: the feedback negativity and responses to delayed rewards Marianna Blackburn1*, Liam Mason1 and Wael El-Deredy1 1 The University of Manchester, United Kingdom The feedback related negativity (FRN) is a negative deflection occurring at frontocentral recording sites that is maximal at 250-300 ms post onset of feedback stimulus. Studies indicate the amplitude of the FRN is determined by the value held by eliciting outcome based on dimensions of outcome magnitude and /or probability. This suggests the FRN reflects a system that classifies outcomes as being favorable or not in line with expectations. Outcome value is also determined by time until outcome delivery, such that rewards which are delayed hold less value than those which are immediate, a phenomena referred to as delay discounting; however, how time delays affect outcome evaluation is unclear. The current study investigated the response of the FRN to the presentation of delayed outcome feedback by recording event-related potentials (ERPs) and behavioural reaction times whilst subjects engaged in a modified stimulus-response task. Participants responded to visual cues which indicated trial type dimensions of valence and delay (reward, penalty; now, week, month) and were given feedback indicating whether rewards or penalties were obtained and their respective time point of delivery. Results showed when outcomes were delivered immediately, penalties elicited larger FRNs than rewards; however, this pattern was reversed for delayed outcomes, with greater FRNs following feedback for delayed rewards as compared to delayed penalties. Our findings support the notion that time delays modulate the motivational value of feedback, with rewards that are delayed, evaluated as worse than expected. Keywords: decision-making, FRN Conference: XI International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON XI), Palma, Mallorca, Spain, 25 Sep - 29 Sep, 2011. Presentation Type: Poster Presentation Topic: Poster Sessions: Decision Making, Reward Processing & Response Selection Citation: Blackburn M, Mason L and El-Deredy W (2011). It’s worse than you thought: the feedback negativity and responses to delayed rewards. Conference Abstract: XI International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON XI). doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2011.207.00395 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 24 Nov 2011; Published Online: 28 Nov 2011. * Correspondence: Dr. Marianna Blackburn, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, marianna.cb@hotmail.co.uk Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Marianna Blackburn Liam Mason Wael El-Deredy Google Marianna Blackburn Liam Mason Wael El-Deredy Google Scholar Marianna Blackburn Liam Mason Wael El-Deredy PubMed Marianna Blackburn Liam Mason Wael El-Deredy Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.