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Jale Özyurt¹, Mareike Rietze, Christiane M Thiel

¹Biological Psychology Lab, Institute of Psychology, Carl von Ossietzky Universität, Oldenburg, Germany. jale.oezyurt@uni-oldenburg.de

|May 23, 2012

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Neuroimaging
Human Brain Function

Background:

The rostral cingulate zone (RCZ) uses positive and negative feedback for performance evaluation and behavioral adjustment.
Limited understanding exists on how the RCZ and other prefrontal areas process feedback when behavioral adaptation is not possible.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the neural processing of feedback solely for performance evaluation, without task-specific adaptation, using fMRI.
To differentiate the effects of feedback's informational value versus its valence on prefrontal brain activity.

Main Methods:

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was employed in a word-learning paradigm.
Two groups of participants received either informative (performance-dependent) or non-informative feedback.
Neural activity was compared between informative and non-informative feedback conditions, and between positive and negative informative feedback.

Main Results:

Several prefrontal regions, including the pre-SMA, inferior frontal cortex, and insula, showed sensitivity to both informational value and valence of feedback.
These regions exhibited stronger activation for informative versus non-informative feedback, and for negative versus positive informative feedback.
The RCZ was sensitive to the informational value of feedback but not its valence.

Conclusions:

Outcome information alone is sufficient to activate prefrontal brain regions.
The RCZ uniquely processes feedback information, being equally sensitive to both positive and negative feedback, unlike other prefrontal areas investigated.