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- Title
Expected value and sensitivity to punishment modulate insular cortex activity during risky decision making.
- Authors
Von Siebenthal, Zorina; Boucher, Olivier; Lazzouni, Latifa; Taylor, Véronique; Martinu, Kristina; Roy, Mathieu; Rainville, Pierre; Lepore, Franco; Nguyen, Dang Khoa
- Abstract
The exact contribution of the insula to risky decision making remains unclear, as are the specific outcome parameters and inter-individual characteristics that modulate insular activity prior to a risky choice. This fMRI study examines the contributions of outcome valence, magnitude, probability, and expected value (EV) to insular activity during risky decision making, and explores the influence of sensitivity to reward and to punishment, and anxiety, to insular activity. Participants (N = 31) performed a gambling task requiring choice between two roulettes with different outcome magnitude, probability and EV, under gain and loss conditions separately, and filled questionnaires assessing sensitivity to punishment/reward, and state/trait anxiety. Parametric analyses were conducted to examine the modulation of brain activity during decision making in relation to each task parameter. Correlations were examined between insular activity and psychometric questionnaires. EV of the selected roulette was associated with right posterior insula activation during decision making. Higher sensitivity to punishment was associated with lower bilateral insular activation. These findings suggest that the right posterior insula is involved in tracking the EV of a risky option during decision making. The involvement of the insula when making risky decisions also appears to be influenced by inter-individual differences in sensitivity to punishment.
- Subjects
INSULAR cortex; FUNCTIONAL magnetic resonance imaging; ANXIETY; PARAMETRIC modeling; PSYCHOMETRICS
- Publication
Scientific Reports, 2020, Vol 10, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2045-2322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41598-020-68644-5