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Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, ON, M5B 2K3, Canada.
J Gambl Stud. 2018 Sep;34(3):853-861. doi: 10.1007/s10899-018-9746-2.
A recent paper by Fielding et al. (J Gamb Stud, 2017) argued that the brain's reward response could occur without the presentation of actual reward. We suggest that since (a) the event-related potentials reported in this paper are atypical of the previous literature, and, (b) a simpler account of the data in terms of sensitivity to outcome frequency cannot be ruled out, the extent to which the brain's reward response can occur without the presentation of actual reward should remain an open question.
菲尔丁等人最近的一篇论文（《赌博研究杂志》，2017 年）认为，大脑的奖励反应可以在没有实际奖励呈现的情况下发生。我们认为，由于（a）本文报告的事件相关电位与先前文献中的典型情况不同，并且，（b）不能排除根据结果频率敏感性对数据进行更简单的解释，因此，在没有实际奖励呈现的情况下大脑的奖励反应可以发生的程度仍然是一个悬而未决的问题。
