Winning versus losing during gambling and its neural correlates

[en] Humans often make decisions which maximize an internal utility function. For example, humans often maximize their expected reward when gambling and this is considered as a “rational” decision. However, humans tend to change their betting strategies depending on how they “feel”. If someone has experienced a losing streak, they may “feel” that they are more likely to win on the next hand even though the odds of the game have not changed. That is, their decisions are driven by their emotional state. In this paper, we investigate how the human brain responds to wins and losses during gambling. Using a combination of local field potential recordings in human subjects performing a financial decision-making task, spectral analyses, and non-parametric cluster statistics, we investigated whether neural responses in different cognitive and limbic brain areas differ between wins and losses after decisions are made. In eleven subjects, the neural activity modulated significantly between win and loss trials in one brain region: the anterior insula (p = 0.01). In particular, gamma activity (30-70 Hz) increased in the anterior insula when subjects just realized that they won. Modulation of metabolic activity in the anterior insula has been observed previously in functional magnetic resonance imaging studies during decision making and when emotions are elicited. However, our study is able to characterize temporal dynamics of electrical activity in this brain region at the millisecond resolution while decisions are made and after outcomes are revealed.

Disciplines :

Engineering, computing & technology: Multidisciplinary, general & others

Author, co-author :

Sacré, Pierre ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Dép. d'électric., électron. et informat. (Inst.Montefiore) > Robotique intelligente

Kerr, Matthew S. D.

Subramanian, Sandya

Kahn, Kevin

Gonzalez-Martinez, Jorge

Johnson, Matthew A.

Gale, John T.

Sarma, Sridevi V.

Language :

English

Title :

Winning versus losing during gambling and its neural correlates

Publication date :

2016

Event name :

2016 Annual Conference on Information Science and Systems (CISS)

Event organizer :

IEEE

Event place :

Princeton, United States - New Jersey

Event date :

from 16-03-2016 to 18-03-2016

By request :

Yes

Audience :

International

Main work title :

Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Conference on Information Science and Systems (CISS)

Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

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since 26 November 2018

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