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Seeking control is a fundamental bias. This study quantifies the subjective value of perceived control, revealing it inflates reward value by 30% and involves the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and striatum.

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  • Neuroscience
  • Decision Science
  • Behavioral Economics

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  • The drive to seek and maintain control over outcomes is a fundamental aspect of well-being observed in both humans and animals.
  • Previous research indicates that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and striatum are involved in this bias towards control.
  • However, a quantitative measure of this bias and its precise neural mechanisms remain underexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To quantitatively measure the behavioral preference for control.
  • To elucidate the neural underpinnings of the subjective value of perceived control.
  • To investigate how the perception of control influences decision-making processes.

Main Methods:

  • A behavioral task was designed where participants made binary choices between options with and without control over a game for monetary reward.
  • Expected value (EV) was manipulated across choice pairs to identify a point of equivalence where participants were equally likely to choose either option.
  • The difference in EV at this equivalence point was used to infer the subjective value of control.

Main Results:

  • The mere presence of a control option elicited significant activity in the ventral striatum.
  • Perceiving control was found to inflate the subjective reward value of the associated option by approximately 30%.
  • This value inflation associated with perceived control was correlated with activity in the vmPFC.

Conclusions:

  • This study successfully captures the inherent subjective value of perceived control in decision-making.
  • The findings highlight the critical role of corticostriatal circuitry, specifically the vmPFC and striatum, in the neural processing of control.
  • The results provide a quantitative framework for understanding the neural basis of the preference for control.