Subgoal- and goal-related reward prediction errors in medial prefrontal cortex
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- José J. F. Ribas-Fernandes, Danesh Shahnazian, Clay Holroyd (UGent) and Matthew M. Botvinick
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- A longstanding view of the organization of human and animal behavior holds that behavior is hierarchically organizedin other words, directed toward achieving superordinate goals through the achievement of subordinate goals or subgoals. However, most research in neuroscience has focused on tasks without hierarchical structure. In past work, we have shown that negative reward prediction error (RPE) signals in medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) can be linked not only to superordinate goals but also to subgoals. This suggests that mPFC tracks impediments in the progression toward subgoals. Using fMRI of human participants engaged in a hierarchical navigation task, here we found that mPFC also processes positive prediction errors at the level of subgoals, indicating that this brain region is sensitive to advances in subgoal completion. However, when subgoal RPEs were elicited alongside with goal-related RPEs, mPFC responses reflected only the goal-related RPEs. These findings suggest that information from different levels of hierarchy is processed selectively, depending on the task context.
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- HIERARCHICAL CONTROL, NEURAL MECHANISMS, BEHAVIOR, SIGNALS
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8649885
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- Ribas-Fernandes, José J. F., et al. “Subgoal- and Goal-Related Reward Prediction Errors in Medial Prefrontal Cortex.” JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE, vol. 31, no. 1, 2019, pp. 8–23, doi:10.1162/jocn_a_01341.
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- Ribas-Fernandes, J. J. F., Shahnazian, D., Holroyd, C., & Botvinick, M. M. (2019). Subgoal- and goal-related reward prediction errors in medial prefrontal cortex. JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE, 31(1), 8–23. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01341
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- Ribas-Fernandes, José J. F., Danesh Shahnazian, Clay Holroyd, and Matthew M. Botvinick. 2019. “Subgoal- and Goal-Related Reward Prediction Errors in Medial Prefrontal Cortex.” JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE 31 (1): 8–23. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01341.
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- Ribas-Fernandes, José J. F., Danesh Shahnazian, Clay Holroyd, and Matthew M. Botvinick. 2019. “Subgoal- and Goal-Related Reward Prediction Errors in Medial Prefrontal Cortex.” JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE 31 (1): 8–23. doi:10.1162/jocn_a_01341.
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- 1.Ribas-Fernandes JJF, Shahnazian D, Holroyd C, Botvinick MM. Subgoal- and goal-related reward prediction errors in medial prefrontal cortex. JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE. 2019;31(1):8–23.
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- [1]J. J. F. Ribas-Fernandes, D. Shahnazian, C. Holroyd, and M. M. Botvinick, “Subgoal- and goal-related reward prediction errors in medial prefrontal cortex,” JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 8–23, 2019.
@article{8649885,
abstract = {{A longstanding view of the organization of human and animal behavior holds that behavior is hierarchically organizedin other words, directed toward achieving superordinate goals through the achievement of subordinate goals or subgoals. However, most research in neuroscience has focused on tasks without hierarchical structure. In past work, we have shown that negative reward prediction error (RPE) signals in medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) can be linked not only to superordinate goals but also to subgoals. This suggests that mPFC tracks impediments in the progression toward subgoals. Using fMRI of human participants engaged in a hierarchical navigation task, here we found that mPFC also processes positive prediction errors at the level of subgoals, indicating that this brain region is sensitive to advances in subgoal completion. However, when subgoal RPEs were elicited alongside with goal-related RPEs, mPFC responses reflected only the goal-related RPEs. These findings suggest that information from different levels of hierarchy is processed selectively, depending on the task context.}},
author = {{Ribas-Fernandes, José J. F. and Shahnazian, Danesh and Holroyd, Clay and Botvinick, Matthew M.}},
issn = {{0898-929X}},
journal = {{JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE}},
keywords = {{HIERARCHICAL CONTROL,NEURAL MECHANISMS,BEHAVIOR,SIGNALS}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{1}},
pages = {{8--23}},
title = {{Subgoal- and goal-related reward prediction errors in medial prefrontal cortex}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01341}},
volume = {{31}},
year = {{2019}},
}
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