The date/delay effect in intertemporal choice: A combined fMRI and eye-tracking study.
date/delay effect
episodic thinking
eye-tracking
fMRI
precuneus
temporal discounting
Journal
Human brain mapping
ISSN: 1097-0193
Titre abrégé: Hum Brain Mapp
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9419065
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
15 Feb 2024
15 Feb 2024
Historique:
revised:
08
12
2023
received:
08
08
2023
accepted:
14
12
2023
medline:
24
2
2024
pubmed:
24
2
2024
entrez:
24
2
2024
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Temporal discounting, the tendency to devalue future rewards as a function of delay until receipt, is influenced by time framing. Specifically, discount rates are shallower when the time at which the reward is received is presented as a date (date condition; e.g., June 8, 2023) rather than in delay units (delay condition; e.g., 30 days), which is commonly referred to as the date/delay effect. However, the cognitive and neural mechanisms of this effect are not well understood. Here, we examined the date/delay effect by analysing combined fMRI and eye-tracking data of N = 31 participants completing a temporal discounting task in both a delay and a date condition. The results confirmed the date/delay effect and revealed that the date condition led to higher fixation durations on time attributes and to higher activity in precuneus/PCC and angular gyrus, that is, areas previously associated with episodic thinking. Additionally, participants made more comparative eye movements in the date compared to the delay condition. A lower date/delay effect was associated with higher prefrontal activity in the date > delay contrast, suggesting that higher control or arithmetic operations may reduce the date/delay effect. Our findings are in line with hypotheses positing that the date condition is associated with differential time estimation and the use of more comparative as opposed to integrative choice strategies. Specifically, higher activity in memory-related brain areas suggests that the date condition leads to higher perceived proximity of delayed rewards, while higher frontal activity (middle/superior frontal gyrus, posterior medial frontal cortex, cingulate) in participants with a lower date/delay effect suggests that the effect is particularly pronounced in participants avoiding complex arithmetic operations in the date condition.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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Organisme : Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
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© 2024 The Authors. Human Brain Mapping published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.
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