Pupil dilation and P3 reflect subjective surprise about decision outcome
de Gee, J. W.; Correa, C.; Weaver, M.; Donner, T. H.; van Gaal, S.
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Central to human and animal cognition is the ability to learn from feedback in order to optimize future rewards. Such a learning signal might be encoded and broadcasted by the brains arousal systems, including the noradrenergic locus coeruleus. Pupil responses and the positive slow wave component of event-related potentials reflect rapid changes in the arousal level of the brain. Here we ask whether and how these variables may reflect surprise: the mismatch between ones expectation about being correct and the outcome of a decision, when expectations fluctuate due to internal factors (e.g., engagement). We show that during an elementary decision-task in the face of uncertainty both physiological markers of phasic arousal reflect surprise. We further show that pupil responses and slow wave ERP are unrelated to each other, and that prediction error computations depend on feedback awareness. These results further advance our understanding of the role of central arousal systems in decision-making under uncertainty.
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