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CA: I like to think of this as the "expectation effect". If you expect to feel less sore, then you probably will feel less sore.
(c) Reconstruction of the expectation effect.
The bilateral nature of this expectation effect (Fig. 2C) was strikingly different from the lateralised effect of spatial attention (Fig. 2B) (F1,22 = 59.02, p = 1.1 × 10−7).
A substantial expectation effect was found for the inert placebo condition, with participants who believed they had received an active drug reporting the highest pain thresholds.
In other words, the expectation effect was spatially specific in the sense that only the orientation at the cued location had an impact on the BOLD response, but spatially non-specific in the sense that the increased BOLD response to an expectation violation was present at both gratings' cortical locations.
Testing for an interaction revealed that the expectation effect was significantly larger in the active treatment conditions compared with the no-treatment conditions and was associated with signal changes in the anterior insular cortex, the anterior cingulate cortex, and the ventral striatum.
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Moreover, participants will be told that the program aims to 'help them to better deal with difficult situations', without mentioning the specific effects expected on the outcome variables, thereby minimizing expectation effects.
Figure 2: Retinotopic reconstructions of attention and expectation effects.
To preview, we found that expectation effects were only evoked by unexpected features presented at the expectation-specific location, and not by features presented at the opposite location.
Here we show by using simulation that adaptation can still masquerade as expectation effects reported in [2].
In sum, the effects of expectation and spatial attention behaved differently across the cortical hierarchy, with expectation effects being strongest, and attention effect being weakest, in V1 (Fig. 3E).
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