It's not just my fault: Neural correlates of feedback processing in solo and joint action.
People often coordinate their actions with others' in pursuit of shared goals, yet little research has examined the neural processes by which people monitor whether shared goals have been achieved. The current study compared event-related potentials elicited by feedback indicating joint errors (resulting from two people's coordinated actions) and individual errors (resulting from one's own or another person's observed actions). Joint errors elicited a reduced feedback-related negativity (FRN) and P3a relative to own errors, and an enhanced FRN relative to observed errors. In contrast, P3b amplitudes did not differ between joint and individual errors. These findings indicate that producing errors together with a partner influences neural activity related to outcome evaluation but has less impact on activity related to the motivation to adapt future behaviour.
Department of Psychology, University of Saskatchewan, 9 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N 5A5; Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, PO Box 9102, 6500 HC Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Electronic address: janeen.loehr@usask.ca.
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Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium; Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, PO Box 9102, 6500 HC Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Electronic address: Dimitrios.Kourtis@UGent.be.
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Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, PO Box 9102, 6500 HC Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Pompestichting, Weg door Jonkerbos 55, 6532 CN Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Electronic address: i.brazil@donders.ru.nl.
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Brazil
D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D018913:Event-Related Potentials, P300 / Q000502:physiology*; D025461:Feedback, Physiological / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation
Action monitoring; Event-related potentials; FRN; Interpersonal coordination; Joint action