Performance monitoring in a confusing world: Error-related brain activity, judgments of response accuracy, and types of errors

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 141-151

  Scheffers, Marten K ^a,b   Coles, Michael G H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CINGULATE GYRUS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; BRAIN; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0034133293     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.26.1.141     Document Type: Article

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