Journal
PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
Volume 52, Issue 3, Pages 367-377Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12331
Keywords
Balloon Analogue Risk Task; Event-related brain potentials (ERPs); Decision making; Executive functions; Feedback-related negativity; Model-based learning; Risk-taking behavior
Funding
- Hungarian Scientific Research Fund [OTKA MB08A 84743, OTKA NF 105878]
- Janos Bolyai Research Fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of executive functions (EFs) in different strategies underlying risky decision making. Adult participants from a nonclinical sample were assigned to low or high EF groups based on their performance on EF tasks measuring shifting, updating, and inhibition. ERPs were recorded while participants performed the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART). In this task, each balloon pump was associated with either a reward or a balloon pop with unknown probability. The BART behavioral measures did not show between-group differences. However, the feedback-related negativity (FRN) associated with undesirable outcomes was larger in the high EF group than in the low EF group. Since the FRN represents salience prediction error, our results suggest that the high EF group formed internal models that were violated by the outcomes. Thus, we provided ERP evidence for EFs influencing risky decision-making processes.
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