The role of cingulate cortex in the detection of errors with and without awareness: A high-density electrical mapping study

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2571-2579

  O'Connell, Redmond G ^a,b   Dockree, Paul M ^a,b   Bellgrove, Mark A ^c   Kelly, Simon P ^b,d   Hester, Robert ^c   Garavan, Hugh ^a   Robertson, Ian H ^a   Foxe, John J ^a,b,d,e  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b St Vincent's Hospital Ireland   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical arousal; ERP; Error positivity; Error processing; Error related negativity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN MAPPING; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONSCIOUSNESS; ERROR; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF MONITORING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AWARENESS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 34247248429     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05477.x     Document Type: Article

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