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The social situation affects how we process feedback about our actions

Artur Czeszumski, Benedikt V. Ehinger, Basil Wahn, Peter König
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/428052
Artur Czeszumski
1Institute of Cognitive Science, Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
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Benedikt V. Ehinger
1Institute of Cognitive Science, Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
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Basil Wahn
1Institute of Cognitive Science, Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
2University of British Columbia, Department of Psychology, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Peter König
1Institute of Cognitive Science, Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
3Institut für Neurophysiologie und Pathophysiologie, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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Abstract

Humans achieve their goals in joint action tasks either by cooperation or competition. In the present study, we investigated the neural processes underpinning error and monetary rewards processing in such cooperative and competitive situations. We used electroencephalography (EEG) and analyzed event-related potentials (ERPs) triggered by feedback in both social situations. 26 dyads performed a joint four-alternative forced choice (4AFC) visual task either cooperatively or competitively. At the end of each trial, participants received performance feedback about their individual and joint errors and accompanying monetary rewards. Furthermore, the outcome, i.e. resulting positive, negative or neutral rewards, was dependent on the pay-off matrix, defining the social situation either as cooperative or competitive. We used linear mixed effects models to analyze the feedback-related-negativity (FRN) and used the Thresholdfree cluster enhancement (TFCE) method to explore activations of all electrodes and times. We found main effects of the outcome and social situation at mid-line frontal electrodes. The FRN was more negative for losses than wins in both social situations. However, the FRN amplitudes differed between social situations. Moreover, we compared monetary with neutral outcomes in both social situations. Our exploratory TFCE analysis revealed that processing of feedback differs between cooperative and competitive situations at right temporo-parietal electrodes where the cooperative situation elicited more positive amplitudes. Further, the differences induced by the social situations were stronger in participants with higher scores on a perspective taking test. In sum, our results replicate previous studies about the FRN and extend them by comparing neurophysiological responses to positive and negative outcomes in a task that simultaneously engages two participants in competitive and cooperative situations.

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The social situation affects how we process feedback about our actions
Artur Czeszumski, Benedikt V. Ehinger, Basil Wahn, Peter König
bioRxiv 428052; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/428052
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Artur Czeszumski, Benedikt V. Ehinger, Basil Wahn, Peter König
bioRxiv 428052; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/428052

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