Action-effect negativity: Irrelevant action effects are monitored like relevant feedback |
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Authors: | Guido PH Band Henk van Steenbergen K Richard Ridderinkhof Bernhard Hommel |
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Institution: | a Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK Leiden, The Netherlands b Leiden University, Institute of Psychology, Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK Leiden, The Netherlands c Amsterdam Center for the Study of Adaptive Control in Brain and Behavior (Acacia), Amsterdam, The Netherlands d Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors (IfADo), University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany |
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Abstract: | Goal-directed action presupposes the previous integration of actions and their perceptual consequences (action-effect binding). One function of action-effect bindings is to select actions by anticipating their consequences. Another, not yet well understood function is the prediction of action-contingent feedback. We used a probabilistic learning task and ERP analyses to compare the processing of explicit, performance-related feedback with the processing of task-irrelevant response-contingent stimuli. Replicating earlier findings, we found that negative performance feedback produced a feedback-related negativity (NFB), presumably related to response outcome evaluation. Interestingly, low-probability but task-irrelevant action effects elicited a signal similar to the NFB, even though it had a shorter duration. Response delays on trials following negative feedback and following low-probability action effects were correlated with one another. These observations suggest that automatically acquired action-effect relations are exploited for anticipating upcoming events. Like task-relevant performance feedback, task-irrelevant action effects serve as a basis for action monitoring processes, presumably mediated by medial frontal cortex. |
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Keywords: | Performance monitoring Error-related negativity NE/ERN N2 Ideomotor theory Reinforcement learning |
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