While theorists have speculated that different affective traits are linked to reliable brain activity during anticipation of gains and losses, few have directly tested this prediction. We examined these associations in a community sample of healthy human adults (n=52) as they played a Monetary Incentive Delay task while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI). Factor analysis of...

6.1 The history and development of the idea of anticipation. a. Introduction This chapter will trace the history and development of the idea of ‘anticipation’. It will commence with Johannes Weiss, for his theology brought about a profound change in the understanding of Jesus’ proclamation of the kingdom of God as emphatically eschatological. Next, a step back will be made to see how the idea o...

RATIONALE It has been shown previously that the amplitude of the pupillary light reflex response decreases when subjects anticipate an aversive stimulus (i.e. electric shock), compared to periods when subjects are resting ('fear-inhibited light reflex'). OBJECTIVE To compare the effects of the anticipation of an electric shock (putative aversive event) and of an acoustic stimulus (putative ne...

Response anticipation and response conflict processes are supported by executive control. However, few neuroimaging studies have attempted to study the relationship between these two processes in the same experimental session. In this study, we isolated brain activity associated with response anticipation (after a cue to prepare vs relax) and with response conflict (responding to a target with ...