Better or worse than expected? Aging, learning, and the ERN

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 521-539

  Eppinger, Ben ^a   Kray, Jutta ^a   Mock, Barbara ^a   Mecklinger, Axel ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

ACC; Age differences; Dopamine; ERP; Error processing; Reinforcement learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REINFORCEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 38749088657     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.09.001     Document Type: Article

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