Table 2.
Behavioral data
| Gain/loss | vmPFC |
NC |
p | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |||
| % Hits | −$0 | 65.3 | 5.6 | 62.1 | 5.7 | 0.34 |
| −$1 | 53.3 | 19.4 | 59.0 | 10.5 | 0.92 | |
| −$5 | 68.0 | 7.3 | 65.6 | 7.1 | 0.78 | |
| +$0 | 62.3 | 7.6 | 61.5 | 10.2 | 0.99 | |
| +$1 | 66.7 | 4.7 | 57.9 | 12.3 | 0.21 | |
| +$5 | 64.0 | 3.7 | 60.5 | 11.0 | 0.70 | |
| Arousal ratings | −$0 | 2.6 | 1.5 | 2.8 | 1.4 | 0.85 |
| −$1 | 2.8 | 1.6 | 3.3 | 1.5 | 0.63 | |
| −$5 | 3.2 | 2.2 | 4.5 | 2.4 | 0.29 | |
| +$0 | 3.0 | 1.6 | 2.9 | 1.3 | 0.92 | |
| +$1 | 4.4 | 1.3 | 4.4 | 1.3 | 0.85 | |
| +$5 | 6.0 | 0.7 | 6.0 | 1.2 | 0.78 | |
| Valence ratings | −$0 | 3.4 | 1.3 | 4.2 | 0.9 | 0.34 |
| −$1 | 3.8 | 0.4 | 3.9 | 0.8 | 0.99 | |
| −$5 | 3.6 | 2.4 | 2.7 | 1.5 | 0.50 | |
| +$0 | 3.6 | 1.1 | 4.2 | 0.4 | 0.39 | |
| +$1 | 4.6 | 1.1 | 4.9 | 0.6 | 0.63 | |
| +$5 | 6.0 | 1.0 | 5.8 | 1.5 | 0.99 | |
| Target duration (ms) | −$0 | 367 | 61 | 352 | 77 | 0.69 |
| −$1 | 345 | 77 | 333 | 83 | 0.56 | |
| −$5 | 350 | 85 | 328 | 71 | 0.89 | |
| +$0 | 352 | 71 | 354 | 56 | 0.96 | |
| +$1 | 378 | 67 | 336 | 92 | 0.19 | |
| +$5 | 334 | 82 | 322 | 84 | 0.82 | |
| Payment | $27.00 | $8.06 | $22.15 | $12.49 | 0.50 | |
Note that, because of a computer malfunction, the behavioral data for one NC subject was not available.