Neural correlates of positive and negative performance feedback in younger and older adults

BACKGROUND: Recent studies with younger adults have shown that performance feedback can serve as a reward, and it elicits reward-related brain activations. This study investigated whether performance feedback is processed similarly in younger and older adults and whether there are differential aging...

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Autores principales: Drueke, Barbara, Weichert, Lydia, Forkmann, Thomas, Mainz, Verena, Gauggel, Siegfried, Boecker, Maren
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4417231/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25889338
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12993-015-0062-z
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author Drueke, Barbara
Weichert, Lydia
Forkmann, Thomas
Mainz, Verena
Gauggel, Siegfried
Boecker, Maren
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description BACKGROUND: Recent studies with younger adults have shown that performance feedback can serve as a reward, and it elicits reward-related brain activations. This study investigated whether performance feedback is processed similarly in younger and older adults and whether there are differential aging effects for positive and negative performance feedback. METHODS: We used event-related fMRI in a choice reaction-time task and provided performance feedback after each trial. RESULTS: Although younger and older adults differed in task-related activation, they showed comparable reward-related activation. Positive performance feedback elicited the strongest striatal and amygdala activation, which was reflected behaviorally in slightly faster reaction times. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that performance feedback serves as a reward in both younger and older adults.
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spelling pubmed-44172312015-05-03 Neural correlates of positive and negative performance feedback in younger and older adults Drueke, Barbara Weichert, Lydia Forkmann, Thomas Mainz, Verena Gauggel, Siegfried Boecker, Maren Behav Brain Funct Research BACKGROUND: Recent studies with younger adults have shown that performance feedback can serve as a reward, and it elicits reward-related brain activations. This study investigated whether performance feedback is processed similarly in younger and older adults and whether there are differential aging effects for positive and negative performance feedback. METHODS: We used event-related fMRI in a choice reaction-time task and provided performance feedback after each trial. RESULTS: Although younger and older adults differed in task-related activation, they showed comparable reward-related activation. Positive performance feedback elicited the strongest striatal and amygdala activation, which was reflected behaviorally in slightly faster reaction times. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that performance feedback serves as a reward in both younger and older adults. BioMed Central 2015-04-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4417231/ /pubmed/25889338 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12993-015-0062-z Text en © Drueke et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_full Neural correlates of positive and negative performance feedback in younger and older adults
title_fullStr Neural correlates of positive and negative performance feedback in younger and older adults
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title_short Neural correlates of positive and negative performance feedback in younger and older adults
title_sort neural correlates of positive and negative performance feedback in younger and older adults
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4417231/
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