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SUBMITTER: Schaefer A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5033321 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schaefer Alexandre A Buratto Luciano G LG Goto Nobuhiko N Brotherhood Emilie V EV
PloS one 20160922 9
A large body of evidence shows that buying behaviour is strongly determined by consumers' price expectations and the extent to which real prices violate these expectations. Despite the importance of this phenomenon, little is known regarding its neural mechanisms. Here we show that two patterns of electrical brain activity known to index prediction errors-the Feedback-Related Negativity (FRN) and the feedback-related P300 -were sensitive to price offers that were cheaper than participants' expec ...[more]