Murayama, Kou, Matsumoto, Madoka, Izuma, Keise orcid.org/0000-0003-0256-3571 et al. (4 more authors) (2015) How Self-Determined Choice Facilitates Performance:A Key Role of the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex. Cerebral Cortex. pp. 1241-1251. ISSN 1460-2199
Abstract
Recent studies have documented that self-determined choice does indeed enhance performance. However, the precise neural mechanisms underlying this effect are not well understood. We examined the neural correlates of the facilitative effects of self-determined choice using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Participants played a game-like task involving a stopwatch with either a stopwatch they selected (self-determined-choice condition) or one they were assigned without choice (forced-choice condition). Our results showed that self-determined choice enhanced performance on the stopwatch task, despite the fact that the choices were clearly irrelevant to task difficulty. Neuroimaging results showed that failure feedback, compared with success feedback, elicited a drop in the vmPFC activation in the forced-choice condition, but not in the self-determined-choice condition, indicating that negative reward value associated with the failure feedback vanished in the self-determined-choice condition. Moreover, the vmPFC resilience to failure in the self-determined-choice condition was significantly correlated with the increased performance. Striatal responses to failure and success feedback were not modulated by the choice condition, indicating the dissociation between the vmPFC and striatal activation pattern. These findings suggest that the vmPFC plays a unique and critical role in the facilitative effects of self-determined choice on performance.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author 2013.This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Psychology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 25 Feb 2016 10:27 |
Last Modified: | 22 Dec 2024 00:10 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bht317 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/cercor/bht317 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:93344 |