ICPS

2023 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2023

Neural Correlates of Valence-Dependent Belief and Value Updating during Uncertainty Reduction: An fNIRS Study

Brussels, Belgium · March 2023

poster · Neuroscience

  • Xuerui Peng
    Technische Universität Dresden
  • Indra Bundil
    Cardiff University
  • Stefan Schulreich
    Universität Hamburg
  • Shu-Chen LI
    TU-Dresden

Abstract

Adaptive behavior utilizes environmental signals to update beliefs about the values of certain actions or events. In a lottery-bidding task, we found that participants underweight good news but utilized bad news following Bayes' rule. Activation of the frontoparietal cortex assessed with functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) correlates with such valence-dependent effects.

Judgment and Decision Making