ArticleCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2019
The importance of agency in human reward processing.
Article in Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- The complex nature of agency attribution: Neurophysiological signatures associated to monitoring self vs. external erroneous actions.iScience · 2026Article
- The experience of cognitive conflict is intrinsically rewarding.Communications psychology · 2026Article
- Self-initiated feedback enhances reward positivity during motor learning in a standing weight-shifting task.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- ERP correlates of agency processing in joint action.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- EEG in Education: A Scoping Review of Hardware, Software, and Methodological Aspects.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Neural dynamics underlying the illusion of control during reward processing.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- Rejecting unfairness enhances the implicit sense of agency in the human brain.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Motivation from Agency and Reward in Typical Development and Autism: Narrative Review of Behavioral and Neural Evidence.Brain sciences · 2022Review
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- The Interplay Between Affective Processing and Sense of Agency During Action Regulation: A Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- EEG correlates of physical effort and reward processing during reinforcement learning.Journal of neurophysiology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Converging evidence suggests that reinforcement learning (RL) signals exist within the human brain and that they play a role in the modification of behaviour. According to RL theory, prediction errors are used to update values associated with actions and/or predictive cues, thus facilitate decision-making. For example, the reward positivity-a feedback-sensitive component of the event-related brain potential (ERP)-is thought to index an RL prediction error. An unresolved question, however, is whether or not action is required to elicit a reward positivity. Reinforcement learning theory would predict that the reward positivity should diminish or disappear in the absence of action, but evidence for this claim is conflicting. To investigate the impact of cue, choice, and action on the amplitude of the reward positivity, we altered a two-armed bandit task by systematically removing these factors. The reward positivity was greatly reduced or absent in the altered versions of the task. This result highlights the key role of agency in producing learning signals, such as the reward positivity.
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