Brain mechanisms of selective learning: Event-related potentials provide evidence for error-driven learning in humans

Biological Psychology

Volumn 51, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 223-246

  Kopp, Bruno ^a   Wolff, Monika ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contingency based learning; Cue competition; ERP; Error driven learning; N2 P3; P150 N150; Selective learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; ERROR; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BRAIN; COGNITION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0033952501     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-0511(99)00039-3     Document Type: Article

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