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The Journal of Neuroscience, January 6, 2010, 30(1):47-55; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2205-09.2010

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Comparing the Neural Basis of Monetary Reward and Cognitive Feedback during Information-Integration Category Learning

Reka Daniel and Stefan Pollmann

Department of Experimental Psychology, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, D-39016 Magdeburg, Germany

Correspondence should be addressed to Reka Daniel, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Postfach 4120, D-39016 Magdeburg, Germany. Email: rdaniel{at}ovgu.de

The dopaminergic system is known to play a central role in reward-based learning (Schultz, 2006), yet it was also observed to be involved when only cognitive feedback is given (Aron et al., 2004). Within the domain of information-integration category learning, in which information from several stimulus dimensions has to be integrated predecisionally (Ashby and Maddox, 2005), the importance of contingent feedback is well established (Maddox et al., 2003). We examined the common neural correlates of reward anticipation and prediction error in this task. Sixteen subjects performed two parallel information-integration tasks within a single event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging session but received a monetary reward only for one of them. Similar functional areas including basal ganglia structures were activated in both task versions. In contrast, a single structure, the nucleus accumbens, showed higher activation during monetary reward anticipation compared with the anticipation of cognitive feedback in information-integration learning. Additionally, this activation was predicted by measures of intrinsic motivation in the cognitive feedback task and by measures of extrinsic motivation in the rewarded task. Our results indicate that, although all other structures implicated in category learning are not significantly affected by altering the type of reward, the nucleus accumbens responds to the positive incentive properties of an expected reward depending on the specific type of the reward.

Received May 11, 2009; revised July 9, 2009; accepted Aug. 10, 2009.

Correspondence should be addressed to Reka Daniel, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Postfach 4120, D-39016 Magdeburg, Germany. Email: rdaniel{at}ovgu.de






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