The temporal representation of experience in subjective mood
- National Institutes of Health / National Institute of Mental Health, United States
- University College London, United Kingdom
Abstract
Humans refer to their mood state regularly in day-to-day as well as clinical interactions. Theoretical accounts suggest that when reporting on our mood we integrate over the history of our experiences; yet, the temporal structure of this integration remains unexamined. Here we use a computational approach to quantitatively answer this question and show that early events exert a stronger influence on reported mood compared to recent events. We show that a Primacy model accounts better for mood reports compared to a range of alternative temporal representations across random, consistent or dynamic reward environments, different age groups and in both healthy and depressed participants. Moreover, we find evidence for neural encoding of the Primacy, but not the Recency, model in frontal brain regions related to mood regulation. These findings hold implications for the timing of events in experimental or clinical settings and suggest new directions for individualized mood interventions.
Data availability
To enable the reproducibility of this study we made scripts and datasets available online at: https://osf.io/vw7sz/?view_only=e8cb4ef6782e4735815867203971994a.This repository includes: Mood modeling code; Source-data of Figure 2 (tasks trial-wise values and mood ratings values of all participants); Neural analyses code; Files of the whole-brain neural images presented in Figure 4.The link to this repository is provided in the Methods (section 7. Availability of code and datasets), and figure captions as well as other sections of the Methods refer to it.
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National Institute of Mental Health (Intramural Research Program,ZIAMH002957-01)
- Hanna Keren
Brain and Behavior Research Foundation
- Robb B Rutledge
National Institute of Mental Health (Intramural Research Program)
- Charles Zheng
National Institute of Mental Health (Intramural Research Program)
- David C Jangraw
National Institute of Mental Health (Intramural Research Program,ZIAMH002957-01)
- Katharine Chang
National Institute of Mental Health (Intramural Research Program,ZIAMH002957-01)
- Aria Vitale
National Institute of Mental Health (Intramural Research Program,ZIAMH002957-01)
- Dylan Nielson
National Institute of Mental Health (Intramural Research Program)
- Francisco Pereira
National Institute of Mental Health (Intramural Research Program,ZIAMH002957-01)
- Argyris Stringaris
Wellcome Trust
- Robb B Rutledge
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Ethics
Human subjects: All participants signed informed consent to a protocol approved by the NIH Institutional Review Board. The protocol is registered under the clinical trial no. NCT03388606.
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This is an open-access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication.
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The temporal representation of experience in subjective mood
eLife 10:e62051.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.62051
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