Stimulus-preceding negativity (SPN) was recorded to investigate
the effect of positive and negative emotion on the SPN preceding
feedback stimuli. In the time-estimation task in which an acoustic
stimulus was presented 3 s after a voluntary movement, (1) the
negative valence (aversive band noise and pure tone) and (2)
the positive valence (reward and no-reward) of feedback stimuli
were manipulated. During noise conditions, participants received
the band noise as a feedback stimulus except when their time
estimations were accurate. They received a monetary reward for
accurate time estimations under the reward conditions. The
prefeedback SPN was larger under reward than no-reward conditions.
In addition, the prefeedback SPN in the noise condition was
larger compared with the pure tone condition. Our results appear
to suggest that emotional anticipation is important in eliciting
the prefeedback SPN.