G. Pourtois: Beyond valence and expectancy: performance monitoring guided by goal relevance

Abstract

Performance monitoring is based on the rapid processing of internal/motor or external/feedback information. Regarding the latter, valence and expectancy are swiftly processed to guide monitoring, as demonstrated by a wealth of EEG and neuroimaging studies. However, besides them, the relevance of the feedback (i.e., its informativeness vis-à-vis the pre-activated goal) also provides an important source of information that influences monitoring presumably, even though the actual contribution of this third variable remains somewhat unclear. In this presentation, I’ll present recent EEG studies we have conducted in the lab where we examined effects of goal relevance on feedback processing. These studies suggest that goal relevance influences valence and expectancy processing during performance monitoring. More generally, they are compatible with recent neuroscientific models according to which monitoring is based on the use and deployment of active sampling policies by the agent.

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