Error-likelihood prediction in the medial frontal cortex: A critical evaluation

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1570-1581

  Nieuwenhuis, Sander ^a,b,c   Schweizer, Tanja Sophie ^c   Mars, Rogier B ^d,e   Botvinick, Matthew M ^f   Hajcak, Greg ^g  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^g STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ACC; Dopamine; Error processing; FMRI; Reinforcement learning; Stop signal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FRONTAL LOBE; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; COGNITION; CUES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 34547687905     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl068     Document Type: Article

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