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  • Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Human goal achievement in joint tasks relies on cooperation or competition.
  • Understanding neural mechanisms of reward and error processing in social contexts is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate neural processes of error and monetary reward processing in cooperative and competitive joint action tasks.
  • To analyze event-related potentials (ERPs) and feedback-related negativity (FRN) differences between social situations.

Main Methods:

  • Electroencephalography (EEG) was used to record neural activity in 26 dyads performing a joint visual task.
  • Participants engaged in cooperative or competitive scenarios with performance feedback and monetary rewards.
  • Linear mixed effects models analyzed FRN, and Threshold-free cluster enhancement (TFCE) explored electrode/time activations.

Main Results:

  • The feedback-related negativity (FRN) was more negative for losses than wins across both social situations.
  • FRN amplitudes differed significantly between cooperative and competitive contexts, with distinct right temporo-parietal responses.
  • Cooperative situations elicited more positive amplitudes at right temporo-parietal electrodes compared to competitive ones.

Conclusions:

  • Neural processing of feedback varies between cooperative and competitive joint actions.
  • Individual differences in perspective-taking moderate the neural responses to social situations.
  • Findings extend previous FRN research by comparing neurophysiological responses in simultaneous cooperative and competitive tasks.