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Feedback is the breakfast of champions
- Source :
- NeuroReport. 29:13-18
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2018.
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Abstract
- With the aim of examining the positive effect of the formal feedback mechanism itself beyond its informational aspect, we engaged participants in the stopwatch task and recorded their electroencephalogram throughout the experiment. This task requires a button press to stop the watch within a given time interval, the completion of which is simultaneously accompanied by adequate information on task performance. In the self-controlled feedback mode, participants could freely choose whether to request formal feedback after completing the task. In another mode, additional feedback was not provided. The 'non-choice' cue was found to elicit a more negative cue-elicited feedback negativity compared with 'choice', suggesting that the opportunity to solicit formal feedback was perceived as more desirable. In addition, a more enhanced stimulus-preceding negativity was observed prior to the task initiation cue in the self-controlled feedback condition, indicating that participants paid more sustained anticipatory attention during task preparation. Taken together, these electrophysiological results suggested an inherent reward within the formal feedback mechanism itself and the significance of self-controlled formal feedback for autonomous task engagement.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
media_common.quotation_subject
Contingent Negative Variation
Choice Behavior
050105 experimental psychology
Feedback
Self-Control
law.invention
Task (project management)
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Mode (computer interface)
Reward
law
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Evoked Potentials
Stopwatch
media_common
Motivation
Communication
Fourier Analysis
business.industry
Button press
General Neuroscience
05 social sciences
Electroencephalography
Self-control
Task engagement
Contingent negative variation
Interval (music)
Female
Cues
Psychology
business
Psychomotor Performance
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09594965
- Volume :
- 29
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- NeuroReport
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f5597a21c0edf6358a88bad090a7c514