Performance monitoring in the anterior cingulate is not all error related: Expectancy deviation and the representation of action-outcome associations

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1994-2004

  Oliveira, Flavio T P ^a,b   McDonald, John J ^a   Goodman, David ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MANIA; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 36849004457     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2007.19.12.1994     Document Type: Article

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