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  • Decision Science

Background:

  • Feedback evaluation is known to be modulated by monetary incentives.
  • The precise mechanisms driving this sensitivity, specifically motivational salience versus motivational valence, remain incompletely understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether feedback evaluation sensitivity to monetary incentives is driven by motivational salience or motivational valence.
  • To explore the temporal, frequency, and phase dynamics of neural responses associated with these effects.

Main Methods:

  • Fifty-seven participants completed a monetary incentive delay task under gain, loss, and neutral contexts.
  • Electroencephalography (EEG) was recorded to analyze brain activity in both time and time-frequency domains.

Main Results:

  • The feedback-related negativity (FRN) demonstrated a motivational salience effect, while the P3 component showed a reward valence effect.
  • Theta power exhibited a motivational salience effect (phase-locked) and a reward valence effect (non-phase-locked for unsuccessful feedback).
  • Phase-locked delta power also displayed a reward valence effect.

Conclusions:

  • Affective modulation of feedback evaluation is influenced by both motivational valence and salience.
  • These effects are differentially reflected in specific temporal (FRN, P3), frequency (theta, delta), and phase dynamics (evoked, induced) of neural activity.