ArticlePLoS computational biology2023
Affect-congruent attention modulates generalized reward expectations.
Article in PLoS computational biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Mouse Behavior on the Trial-Unique Nonmatching-to-Location (TUNL) Touchscreen Task Reflects a Mixture of Distinct Working Memory Codes and Response Biases.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- The effects of induced positive and negative affect on Pavlovian-instrumental interactions.Cognition & emotion · 2022Article
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Abstract
Positive and negative affective states are respectively associated with optimistic and pessimistic expectations regarding future reward. One mechanism that might underlie these affect-related expectation biases is attention to positive- versus negative-valence features (e.g., attending to the positive reviews of a restaurant versus its expensive price). Here we tested the effects of experimentally induced positive and negative affect on feature-based attention in 120 participants completing a compound-generalization task with eye-tracking. We found that participants' reward expectations for novel compound stimuli were modulated in an affect-congruent way: positive affect induction increased reward expectations for compounds, whereas negative affect induction decreased reward expectations. Computational modelling and eye-tracking analyses each revealed that these effects were driven by affect-congruent changes in participants' allocation of attention to high- versus low-value features of compounds. These results provide mechanistic insight into a process by which affect produces biases in generalized reward expectations.
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