ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2019
Corticostriatal Circuits Encode the Subjective Value of Perceived Control.
Article in Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.
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- Reward enhances connectivity between the ventral striatum and the default mode network.NeuroImage · 2022Article
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- Prefrontal cortex and depression.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2022Review
- A Computational Model of Hopelessness and Active-Escape Bias in Suicidality.Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2022Article
- Reward prediction errors drive declarative learning irrespective of agency.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2021Article
- Neurocomputational mechanism of controllability inference under a multi-agent setting.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
- The Interplay Between Affective Processing and Sense of Agency During Action Regulation: A Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- The Protective Effects of Perceived Control During Repeated Exposure to Aversive Stimuli.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Functional heterogeneity of perceived control in feedback processing.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2020Article
- Neural activity in human ventromedial prefrontal cortex reflecting the intention to save reward.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2019Article
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Abstract
The ability to perceive and exercise control over an outcome is both desirable and beneficial to our well-being. It has been shown that animals and humans alike exhibit behavioral bias towards seeking control and that such bias recruits the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and striatum. Yet, this bias remains to be quantitatively captured and studied neurally. Here, we employed a behavioral task to measure the preference for control and characterize its neural underpinnings. Participants made a series of binary choices between having control and no-control over a game for monetary reward. The mere presence of the control option evoked activity in the ventral striatum. Importantly, we manipulated the expected value (EV) of each choice pair to extract the pairing where participants were equally likely to choose either option. The difference in EV between the options at this point of equivalence was inferred as the subjective value of control. Strikingly, perceiving control inflated the reward value of the associated option by 30% and this value inflation was tracked by the vmPFC. Altogether, these results capture the subjective value of perceived control inherent in decision making and highlight the role of corticostriatal circuitry in the perception of control.
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