It's Subjective! Effects of Perceptions of Success and Objective Outcomes on the Reward Positivity ERP Component in a Motor Learning Paradigm

It's Subjective! Effects of Perceptions of Success and Objective Outcomes on the Reward Positivity ERP Component in a Motor Learning Paradigm | Authorea try { document.documentElement.classList.add('js'); } catch (e) { } var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'G-8VDV14Y67G']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); Skip to main content Preprints Collections Wiley Open Research IET Open Research Ecological Society of Japan All Collections About About Authorea FAQs Contact Us Quick Search anywhere Search for preprint articles, keywords, etc. Search Search ADVANCED SEARCH SCROLL This is a preprint and has not been peer reviewed. Data may be preliminary. 11 July 2025 V1 Latest version Share on It's Subjective! Effects of Perceptions of Success and Objective Outcomes on the Reward Positivity ERP Component in a Motor Learning Paradigm Authors : Juliana O. Parma 0000-0002-3118-9921 [email protected] , Keith Lohse , Mariane F. B. Bacelar , and Matthew Miller 0000-0002-7896-7217 Authors Info & Affiliations https://doi.org/10.22541/au.175224079.96264618/v1 344 views 127 downloads Contents Abstract Supplementary Material Information & Authors Metrics & Citations View Options References Figures Tables Media Share Abstract Feedback processing affects motor learning and performance. Importantly, the same objective outcome can lead to feedback that is subjectively perceived as successful or unsuccessful depending on task instructions. Thus, it is crucial to understand how practice conditions can affect the rewarding value of movement outcomes. To this end, we recorded participants’ electroencephalography while practicing a shuffleboard task under different criteria of success. Then, we used mixed-effects models to investigate, on a trial-by-trial basis, how subjective success, objective error, and task experience interact with each other to affect the feedback-related potential reward positivity (RewP), an index of reward prediction error. Results indicated that trials that met participants’ arbitrarily established criterion of success elicited larger RewP amplitudes than trials subjectively perceived as unsuccessful. Moreover, although smaller objective errors also resulted in larger RewP amplitudes compared to larger objective errors, we demonstrated that subjective success explained more RewP variance than objective error. We did not find sufficient evidence that criteria of success moderate the relationship between objective error and RewP, suggesting that error magnitude is interpreted in parallel and in addition to success, rather than one overriding the other. Lastly, trial number showed an inverse relationship with RewP amplitude, indicating that task experience negatively affected the rewarding value of movement outcomes. Overall, our results indicate that giving subjective meaning to learners’ performance outcomes can be an effective and simple way for instructors to manipulate the brain’s reward systems during practice, especially because the subjective interpretation of the outcome can have more of an influence on RewP than the objective level of accuracy. Finally, we also add evidence to the literature that RewP is responsive not only to binary and subjective feedback but also to graded objective feedback and outcome expectancies in a learnable motor task. Supplementary Material File (parma et al_success perception.docx) Download 1.62 MB Information & Authors Information Version history V1 Version 1 11 July 2025 Copyright This work is licensed under a Non Exclusive No Reuse License. Authors Affiliations Juliana O. Parma 0000-0002-3118-9921 [email protected] San Francisco State University View all articles by this author Keith Lohse Washington University in St Louis View all articles by this author Mariane F. B. Bacelar Boise State University View all articles by this author Matthew Miller 0000-0002-7896-7217 Auburn University View all articles by this author Metrics & Citations Metrics Article Usage 344 views 127 downloads .FvxKWukQNSOunydq8rnd { width: 100px; } Citations Download citation Juliana O. Parma, Keith Lohse, Mariane F. B. Bacelar, et al. It's Subjective! Effects of Perceptions of Success and Objective Outcomes on the Reward Positivity ERP Component in a Motor Learning Paradigm. Authorea . 11 July 2025. 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