Title |
The Brain Network of Expectancy and Uncertainty Processing
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Published in |
PLOS ONE, July 2012
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DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0040252 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Andrés Catena, José C. Perales, Alberto Megías, Antonio Cándido, Elvia Jara, Antonio Maldonado |
Abstract |
The Stimulus Preceding Negativity (SPN) is a non-motor slow cortical potential elicited by temporally predictable stimuli, customarily interpreted as a physiological index of expectancy. Its origin would be the brain activity responsible for generating the anticipatory mental representation of an expected upcoming event. The SPN manifests itself as a slow cortical potential with negative slope, growing in amplitude as the stimulus approximates. The uncertainty hypothesis we present here postulates that the SPN is linked to control-related areas in the prefrontal cortex that become more active before the occurrence of an upcoming outcome perceived as uncertain. |
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