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ERP Results: Choice Optimality
Neural Dynamics of Decision-‐Making in a Financial Trading TaskAlison Harris1, Cary Frydman2 & Tom Chang2
1 Department of Psychology, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA USA2 Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA
❖ Disposition effect❖ Sell winning stocks more often than losing stocks❖ Deviation from optimal financial decision-making
❖ Realization Utility theory❖ Pleasure from sale relative to purchase cost (capital gain)❖ It hurts to sell at a loss, but “locking in” a gain is satisfying
❖ When and how does financial decision-making occur in the brain?❖ Value signals related to capital gain❖ Neural correlates of optimal vs. suboptimal trading choice
Introduction
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Methods❖ N = 60❖ Investing in stock market with stocks A, B, C
❖ Update period: Price change❖ Action period: Buy or sell decision
$80B
BUY?
Action 2
DOWN $5 --> $80B
Don’t own
Update 2
$75A
Cost: $100 SELL?
Action 1
Update 1
UP $15 --> $30C
Purchased: $100
Trial structureTrial structureTrial structureTrial structure
Update2 s
Prep (Fixation)1-2 s
ActionRT (max 3 s)
ITI (Fixation)3 * RT
❖ Procedure❖ 128-channel EEG❖ Could only hold 0 or 1 units of each stock❖ Informed of stock market properties at start of experiment
❖ Good state: p(up) = 0.7, p(down) = 0.3❖ Bad state: p(up) = 0.3, p(down) = 0.7❖ 20% chance of changing from good to bad state or vice versa
❖ Payoff at end of experiment based on stock holdings and sales
Predictions❖ Participants will exhibit behavioral disposition effect (DE)❖ Capital gain (CG) at sell decision correlates with neural value
signal❖ Ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC)❖ From ~400 ms after stimulus onset❖ Neural sensitivity to CG associated with selling “winners”
❖ Optimal choice requires overcoming realization utility bias❖ Analogous to regulating behavioral/cognitive conflict❖ Anterior cingulate cortex (ACC)
ERP Results: Capital Gain
Behavioral Results❖ Average DE = 0.07 significantly greater than zero (p = 0.04)❖ Suboptimal behavior compared to “rational” Bayesian agent
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❖ EEG data time-locked to Action period onset❖ Subject-level linear regression:
Capital Gain: ysensor,time = β0 + β1CapitalGain + β2BayesianPosterior + ε
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❖ EEG data time-locked to Action period onset❖ Paired t test on optimal vs. suboptimal choice
❖ Optimal: hold if bi(good) > 0.5 , sell if bi(good) < 0.5
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❖ Disposition effect exists despite being financially suboptimal❖ Capital gain at sell decision correlates with ERP value signal
❖ Emerges 400-650 ms after stimulus onset❖ Localized to vmPFC❖ Neural CG signal correlates with propensity to sell winners
❖ Optimal choice requires overcoming realization utility bias❖ Neural signals as early as 100-150 ms after stimulus onset❖ Localized to ACC
➡ ERP provides insight into time course of disposition effect➡ Supports role of neural value signals in realization utility bias
Conclusions
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Correlating ERP with Behavior
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ERP Source Reconstruction❖ Distributed source reconstruction in SPM8 (group inversion)
Capital Gain, 400-650 ms post-stimulus
fMRI ❖ Linear ordering of CG quartiles
❖ Localized to vmPFC❖ Consistent with fMRI
(Frydman et al., 2014)F = 150
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Optimal vs. Suboptimal, 100-150 ms post-stimulus
❖ Optimal > Suboptimal❖ Left dorsal ACC❖ Bilateral precentral gyrus❖ Left anterior insula
❖ Suboptimal > Optimal❖ Genual ACC❖ Right anterior insula❖ Bilateral parietal lobe
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