Comparing Discounting of Potentially Real Rewards and Losses by Means of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Delay discounting (DD) has often been investigated in the context of decision making whereby individuals attribute decreasing value to rewards in the distant future. Less is known about DD in the context of negative consequences. The aim of this pilot study was to identify commonalities and differences between reward and loss discounting on the behavioral as well as the neural level by means of computational modeling and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). We furthermore compared the neural activation between anticipation of rewards and losses.

Method

We conducted a study combining an intertemporal choice task for potentially real rewards and losses (decision-making) with a monetary incentive/loss delay task (reward/loss anticipation). Thirty healthy partici

SUBMITTER: Pinger M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9365957 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature