Brain potentials reveal the role of conflict in human errorful and errorless learning

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 444, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 64-68

  Heldmann, Marcus ^a   Markgraf, Ursula ^a   Rodríguez Fornells, Antoni ^b,c   Münte, Thomas F ^a,d  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conflict model; ERN; Errorless learning; Errorlikelihood model; Memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; COGNITION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 50849090288     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.07.042     Document Type: Article

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