Research of personal decision process using event-related potentials

Xiaofeng Li

doi:10.1117/12.905918

28 October 2011 Research of personal decision process using event-related potentials

Xiaofeng Li

Proceedings Volume 8205, 2011 International Conference on Photonics, 3D-Imaging, and Visualization; 820526 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.905918
Event: 2011 International Conference on Photonics, 3D-imaging, and Visualization, 2011, Guangzhou, China

Abstract

To gain insights into the neural basis of such adaptive decision-making processes, we investigated the nature of learning process in humans playing a competitive game with binary choices, using a matching pennies game. As in reinforcement learning, the subject's choice during a competitive game was biased by its choice and reward history, as well as by the strategies of its opponent. Analyses of ERP data focused on the feedback-related negativity (FRN), we found that the magnitude of ERPs after losing to the computer opponent predicted whether subjects would change decision behavior on the subsequent trial. These findings provide novel evidence that humans engage a reinforcement learning process to adjust representations of competing decision options.

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Xiaofeng Li "Research of personal decision process using event-related potentials", Proc. SPIE 8205, 2011 International Conference on Photonics, 3D-Imaging, and Visualization, 820526 (28 October 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.905918

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