Distinct outcome processing in deterministic and probabilistic reversal learning

• Published in: Cortex Vol. 141; pp. 224 - 239
• Main Authors: Habiby Alaoui, Selim, Adam-Darqué, Alexandra, Ptak, Radek, Schnider, Armin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.08.2021
• Subjects: Behavioral extinction; Judgment; Monitoring; Orbitofrontal reality filtering; Outcome processing; Prediction error; Orbitofrontal reality filtering; Behavioral extinction; Outcome processing; Monitoring; Prediction error; Judgment

Anticipations that fail to happen are important drivers of behavioral adaptation. Their processing appears to depend on the context. In a deterministic environment, where a stimulus unequivocally predicts the outcome, processing of absent outcomes involves the posterior orbitofrontal cortex (OFC). F...