Sensitivity of electrophysiological activity from medial frontal cortex to utilitarian and performance feedback

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 741-747

  Nieuwenhuis, Sander ^a,b   Yeung, Nick ^a   Holroyd, Clay B ^a   Schurger, Aaron ^a   Cohen, Jonathan D ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex; ERP; Error negativity; Error related negativity; Gambling; Utility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; GAMBLING; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 3042825165     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhh034     Document Type: Article

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