Journal
PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
Volume 41, Issue 4, Pages 531-540Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2004.00197.x
Keywords
heart rate; skin conductance; gambling; decision making; feedback; anticipation
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The current study examined the pattern of heart rate and skin conductance changes preceding risky choices and following outcome for bad, moderate, and good performers on an analogue of the Iowa gambling task (Bechara, Damasio, Damasio, & Anderson, 1994). The task required a choice between four options, two options were followed by a high reward and, unpredictably, an even higher loss (disadvantageous options) and two other options were followed by a small reward but the unpredictable loss was also small (advantageous options). Anticipatory heart rate slowing and skin conductance level were higher preceding disadvantageous relative to advantageous options, but only for good performers. In contrast, heart rate slowed and skin conductance level increased following loss relative to reward outcomes, and these changes were similar for all performance groups. These findings were interpreted to suggest that decision-making impairments in bad performers arise from a weak somatic response generated by secondary inducers (i.e., somatic markers), rather than a weak somatic response generated by primary inducers of reward and punishment.
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