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. 2021 Jan 20;109(2):199-201.
doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.12.022.

Surprise Signals Changing Affective Experiences in Naturalistic Sports Spectating

Marissa D Clark  1 , Luke J Chang  2
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Surprise Signals Changing Affective Experiences in Naturalistic Sports Spectating

Marissa D Clark et al. Neuron. .

Abstract

What role does surprise play in a spectating experience? In this issue of Neuron, Antony et al. (2021) develop and validate a model of surprise to characterize the psychological and neurobiological processes underlying sports fans' experiences as they watch the final minutes of NCAA college basketball games.

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A) Antony et al., 2020’s predicted win probability for a given game. B) Predicted surprise based on the absolute value of the derivative of the win likelihoods. C) The aggregated subjective perceptions of participants game unit boundaries. D) Each behavioral participant’s self-reported boundary. E) The average standardized pupil area change after controlling for sensory confounds reported in the original paper. Error bars reflect standard error. F) Cross subject concordance of event boundaries based on fitting hidden markov model to medial prefrontal cortex
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