Journal
PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
Volume 58, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/psyp.13853
Keywords
attention; motor learning; reinforcement learning; sensorimotor theta; stimulus-preceding negativity
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By reexamining with a 6-second delay, it was found that the decrease in SPN was limited to the early half of the delay when participants were learning a sequence of keypress durations, suggesting that processes related to adjustment and maintenance of action-outcome expectancies may play a role in explaining the diminished SPN.
It is well established that the stimulus-preceding negativity (SPN) decreases in amplitude as a task is mastered, a phenomenon generally attributed to the reduction in anticipatory attention as feedback becomes less needed. Typically, the experiments supporting this assumption have used relatively short delays (<3 s). However, we found in a previous study that this decline in amplitude, although present during the 2.5-s prefeedback delay of a patterned key-pressing task, was absent with an 8-s delay. We reexamined this finding using a 6-s delay and found that the SPN diminished at frontal sites as participants learned a sequence of four keypress durations, but that this modulation was limited to the early half of the delay (maximum at 2 s). Decline of lateralized sensorimotor theta activity across trials was also limited to early portions of the delay. These findings suggest that processes other than anticipatory attention to feedback may be more relevant for explaining SPN diminution. Such processes could include adjustment and maintenance of action-outcome expectancies (e.g., forward models) during the prefeedback interval.
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