期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 38, 期 24, 页码 5632-5648出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3638-17.2018
关键词
cognitive control; decision-making; electroencephalography (EEG); expectation; sensory modulation
资金
- NEI [R01EY025872]
- James S. McDonnell Foundation
- HHMI International Predoctoral Fellowship
- Ministry of Science and Technology in Thailand
- NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE [R01EY025872] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Two factors play important roles in shaping perception: the allocation of selective attention to behaviorally relevant sensory features, and prior expectations about regularities in the environment. Signal detection theory proposes distinct roles of attention and expectation on decision-making such that attention modulates early sensory processing, whereas expectation influences the selection and execution of motor responses. Challenging this classic framework, recent studies suggest that expectations about sensory regularities enhance the encoding and accumulation of sensory evidence during decision-making. However, it is possible, that these findings reflect well documented attentional modulations in visual cortex. Here, we tested this framework in a group of male and female human participants by examining how expectations about stimulus features (orientation and color) and expectations about motor responses impacted electro-encephalography (EEG) markers of early sensory processing and the accumulation of sensory evidence during decision-making (the early visual negative potential and the centro-parietal positive potential, respectively). We first demonstrate that these markers are sensitive to changes in the amount of sensory evidence in the display. Then we show, counter to recent findings, that neither marker is modulated by either feature or motor expectations, despite a robust effect of expectations on behavior. Instead, violating expectations about likely sensory features and motor responses impacts posterior alpha and frontal theta oscillations, signals thought to index overall processing time and cognitive conflict. These findings are inconsistent with recent theoretical accounts and suggest instead that expectations primarily influence decisions by modulating post-perceptual stages of information processing.
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