A computational and neural model of momentary subjective well-being

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 33, 2014, Pages 12252-12257

  Rutledge, Robb B ^a,b   Skandali, Nikolina ^a   Dayan, Peter ^c   Dolan, Raymond J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK UCL CENTRE FOR COMPUTATIONAL PSYCHIATRY AND AGEING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Insula; Reward prediction error; Striatum

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

ADULT; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEMOGRAPHY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; WELLBEING;

DOPAMINE; INSULA; REWARD PREDICTION ERROR; STRIATUM;

ADULT; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEURONS; PROBABILITY; REWARD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906328206     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1407535111     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Bentham J (1776) A Fragment on Government (T. Payne, London).
2. Oswald AJ, Wu S (2010) Objective confirmation of subjective measures of human well-being: Evidence from the U.S.A. Science 327(5965):576-579.
3. Russell JA (1980) A circumplex model of affect. J Pers Soc Psychol 39(6):1161-1178.
4. Diener E, Suh EM, Lucas RE, Smith HL (1999) Subjective well-being: Three decades of progress. Psychol Bull 125(2):276-302.
5. Barrett LF, Mesquita B, Ochsner KN, Gross JJ (2007) The experience of emotion. Annu Rev Psychol 58:373-403.
6. Layard R (2005) Happiness: Lessons from a New Science (Allen Lane, London).
7. Kahneman D, Deaton A (2010) High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 107(38):16489-16493.
8. Easterlin RA, McVey LA, Switek M, Sawangfa O, Zweig JS (2010) The happiness-income paradox revisited. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 107(52):22463-22468.
9. Berridge KC, Robinson TE (1998) What is the role of dopamine in reward: Hedonic impact, reward learning, or incentive salience? Brain Res Rev 28(3):309-369. (Pubitemid 29012677)
10. Csikszentmihalyi M, Larson R (1987) Validity and reliability of the Experience-Sampling Method. J Nerv Ment Dis 175(9):526-536. (Pubitemid 17144371)
11. Reis HT, Gable SL (2000) Event-sampling and other methods for studying everyday experience. Handbook of Research Methods in Social and Personality Psychology, eds Reis HT, Judd CM (Cambridge Univ Press, New York), pp 190-222.
12. Kahneman D, Krueger AB, Schkade DA, Schwarz N, Stone AA (2004) A survey method for characterizing daily life experience: The day reconstruction method. Science 306(5702):1776-1780. (Pubitemid 39601395)
13. Killingsworth MA, Gilbert DT (2010) A wandering mind is an unhappy mind. Science 330(6006):932.
14. Knutson B, Adams CM, Fong GW, Hommer D (2001) Anticipation of increasing monetary reward selectively recruits nucleus accumbens. J Neurosci 21(16):RC159.
15. Knutson B, Fong GW, Bennett SM, Adams CM, Hommer D (2003) A region of mesial prefrontal cortex tracks monetarily rewarding outcomes: Characterization with rapid event-related fMRI. Neuroimage 18(2):263-272. (Pubitemid 36269138)
16. Samanez-Larkin GR, et al. (2007) Anticipation of monetary gain but not loss in healthy older adults. Nat Neurosci 10(6):787-791.
17. Schultz W, Dayan P, Montague PR (1997) A neural substrate of prediction and reward. Science 275(5306):1593-1599. (Pubitemid 27120526)
18. Bayer HM, Glimcher PW (2005) Midbrain dopamine neurons encode a quantitative reward prediction error signal. Neuron 47(1):129-141. (Pubitemid 40922855)
19. Cohen JY, Haesler S, Vong L, Lowell BB, Uchida N (2012) Neuron-type-specific signals for reward and punishment in the ventral tegmental area. Nature 482(7383):85-88.
20. Zaghloul KA, et al. (2009) Human substantia nigra neurons encode unexpected financial rewards. Science 323(5920):1496-1499.
21. O'Doherty JP, Dayan P, Friston K, Critchley H, Dolan RJ (2003) Temporal difference models and reward-related learning in the human brain. Neuron 38(2):329-337. (Pubitemid 36555657)
22. Pessiglione M, Seymour B, Flandin G, Dolan RJ, Frith CD (2006) Dopamine-dependent prediction errors underpin reward-seeking behaviour in humans. Nature 442(7106):1042-1045. (Pubitemid 44330261)
23. Rutledge RB, Dean M, Caplin A, Glimcher PW (2010) Testing the reward prediction error hypothesis with an axiomatic model. J Neurosci 30(40):13525-13536.
24. O'Doherty JP, Buchanan TW, Seymour B, Dolan RJ (2006) Predictive neural coding of reward preference involves dissociable responses in human ventral midbrain and ventral striatum. Neuron 49(1):157-166. (Pubitemid 43017193)
25. Rolls ET, Grabenhorst F, Parris BA (2008) Warm pleasant feelings in the brain. Neuroimage 41(4):1504-1513.
26. Xiang T, Lohrenz T, Montague PR (2013) Computational substrates of norms and their violations during social exchange. J Neurosci 33(3):1099-1108.
27. Behrens TEJ, Hunt LT, Woolrich MW, Rushworth MFS (2008) Associative learning of social value. Nature 456(7219):245-249.
28. Critchley HD, Wiens S, Rotshtein P, Öhman A, Dolan RJ (2004) Neural systems supporting interoceptive awareness. Nat Neurosci 7(2):189-195. (Pubitemid 38129796)
29. Damasio A, Carvalho GB (2013) The nature of feelings: Evolutionary and neurobiological origins. Nat Rev Neurosci 14(2):143-152.
30. Craig AD (2009) How do you feel-now? The anterior insula and human awareness. Nat Rev Neurosci 10(1):59-70.
31. Singer T, Critchley HD, Preuschoff K (2009) A common role of insula in feelings, empathy and uncertainty. Trends Cogn Sci 13(8):334-340.
32. Lewis GJ, Kanai R, Rees G, Bates TC (2014) Neural correlates of the 'good life': Eudaimonic well-being is associated with insular cortex volume. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 9(5):615-618.
33. Lykken D, Tellegen A (1996) Happiness is a stochastic phenomenon. Psychol Sci 7(3):186-189.
34. Brickman P, Campbell DT (1971) Hedonic relativism and planning the good society. Adaptation-Level Theory, ed Appley MH (Academic, New York), pp 287-305.
35. Frederick S, Loewenstein G (1999) Hedonic adaptation. Well-Being: The Foundations of Hedonic Psychology, eds Kahneman D, Diener E, Schwarz N (Russell Sage Foundation, New York), pp 302-329.
36. Kahneman D (2000) Experienced utility and objective happiness: A moment-based approach. Choices, Values, and Frames, eds Kahneman D, Tversky A (Cambridge Univ Press, New York), pp 673-692.
37. Kahneman D, Fredrickson BL, Schreiber CA, Redelmeier DA (1993) When more pain is preferred to less: Adding a better end. Psychol Sci 4(6):401-405.
38. Redelmeier DA, Katz J, Kahneman D (2003) Memories of colonoscopy: A randomized trial. Pain 104(1-2):187-194. (Pubitemid 36835887)
39. Sutton RS, Barto AG (1998) Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA).
40. Montague PR, Dayan P, Sejnowski TJ (1996) A framework for mesencephalic dopamine systems based on predictive Hebbian learning. J Neurosci 16(5):1936-1947. (Pubitemid 26145969)
41. Hart AS, Rutledge RB, Glimcher PW, Phillips PEM (2014) Phasic dopamine release in the rat nucleus accumbens symmetrically encodes a reward prediction error term. J Neurosci 34(3):698-704.
42. Nestler EJ, Carlezon WA, Jr (2006) The mesolimbic dopamine reward circuit in depression. Biol Psychiatry 59(12):1151-1159. (Pubitemid 44192421)
43. Lemos JC, et al. (2012) Severe stress switches CRF action in the nucleus accumbens from appetitive to aversive. Nature 490(7420):402-406.
44. Liggins J, Pihl RO, Benkelfat C, Leyton M (2012) The dopamine augmenter L-DOPA does not affect positive mood in healthy human volunteers. PLoS ONE 7(1):e28370.
45. Schönberg T, Daw ND, Joel D, O'Doherty JP (2007) Reinforcement learning signals in the human striatum distinguish learners from nonlearners during reward-based decision making. J Neurosci 27(47):12860-12867. (Pubitemid 350159584)
46. Koch C (2004) The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach (Roberts and Co, Englewood, CO).
47. Sokol-Hessner P, et al. (2009) Thinking like a trader selectively reduces individuals' loss aversion. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106(13):5035-5040.
48. Schwarz G (1978) Estimating the dimension of a model. Ann Stat 6(2):461-464.
49. Burnham KP, Anderson DR (1998) Model Selection and Inference (Springer, New York).
50. Wager TD, Davidson ML, Hughes BL, Lindquist MA, Ochsner KN (2008) Prefrontal-subcortical pathways mediating successful emotion regulation. Neuron 59(6):1037-1050.
51. Atlas LY, Bolger N, Lindquist MA, Wager TD (2010) Brain mediators of predictive cue effects on perceived pain. J Neurosci 30(39):12964-12977.